[Ads-l] Capsule ['k æpʃʲʊl]

[Laurence Horn]

Not always:  those who have antepenultimate stress on “insurance” still palatalize the /s/. And “tonsure”, which is not a compound of “sure”, also palatalizes.  


> On Jun 29, 2020, at 9:55 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Well, of course we have *sure* /ʃʊr/ and its compounds, but that syllable
> is always stressed.
> Mark
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> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 8:35 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>> On Jun 29, 2020, at 6:16 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> Australian English
>>> https://youtu.be/abuptkDdbLI
>>> About 2:20
>>> 
>>> This may be very familiar information to those who are concerned with it,
>>> but I don't know much about Australian accents academically.
>>> 
>>> MAM
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>> Haven’t heard it myself and it’s not listed among the OED’s recorded
>> variants, but it does make a kind of sense, since we get palatalization of
>> /sju/ before /r/—sure we do—and “capsule” isn’t structurally that different
>> from, say, “capture”, so why not before /l/?  And -tule palatalizes as well
>> as in “pustule” (memorably eggcornicized as “pus jewel”, as some will
>> recall). Are there other words ending in -sule?  I don’t seem to have a
>> backward dictionary on me.  Palatalization in “consul” seems less likely,
>> but how about “consulate”?  I’ll ask my Australian colleague next chance I
>> get.  Null hypothesis is that it’s a one-off spelling pronunciation.
>> 
>> LH
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