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[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 21, 2012, at 10:09 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>> I'd plan on scooting out of there while they're still puzzling it out.
>
> The smoothest move, no doubt!
>
> BEW, _no doubt_ and _evidently_ are both common catch-terms in BE. At
> one time, I thought that the stress-pattern, "eviDINTly," was a black
> thang that you wouldn't understand. But, my current impression is the
> stress is on "dVnt," whether the V be [E] or [I].
>
For me, it is indeed always [Ev@'dEntli] (as if it were "evidentally") when it's used in free-standing replies:

Are you here?
EviDENTly.

but:
That's EVidently correct.  or That's eviDENTly correct.  (both possible for me)

LH

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