SV: Linking and intrusive R

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From: Mark Odegard

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 10:00 PM

Subject: Re: [cybalist] Linking and intrusive R

 

My 'hiatus fillers' are Y and W. 'Co-operate' usually gets a W where the hyphen is (the two orthographic Os, however. are different vowels). For a word like 'fail', a very short Y is often inserted between the two vowels.

Aren't these diphthongs? Or do you pronounce fail as two syllables, roughly [fejil]?

And do you say [kou-wop-] or are you referring to the second part of the diphthong in co-, which is also present before a consonant, like in copartner and co-star?

 

Urban