Install and installation

[Dan Goncharoff]

I don't think the societal variation exists for the word "finance".

You fih.NAENS a car.
I work in FIE-naens.

There may be some confusion caused by corporate names. It was Household
fih.NAENS, but the word was neither a verb or a noun, but an adjective
("finance corporation").

DanG


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Dec 13, 2013, at 8:03 AM, W Brewer wrote:
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> > Finance:  I would still argue for a sociolectal variation, with the
> > citation forms being:
> > FIE-naens (L-based speech) vs. fih.NAENS (H-based).
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> I wonder if there's any evidence for this.  It reminds me of the claim
> supported by most of my students that /vAz/ as in "pa's" is H (or for $300
> and up vases) while /ve:s/ as in "face" is L (for $10 and less vases); the
> only question, supposedly, is the cut-off point.
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> LH
>
> > Then the rhythm rule
> > would apply to the underlying fih.NAENS to yield HIGH FIE.naens COSTS.
> But
> > that's just me. And anyway my intuition gets crappier the more I think
> > about it.
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