Re: English Haplology and Degemination (was meaning of the Germanic

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard
> Wordingham" <richard@...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >
> > > . . ."Prob'ly" is so common that it gets
> recorded by
> > > pronouncing dictionaries. So is "particu'ly".

But that's the expected non-rhotic pronunciation
. . .


. . .

> > /febj&ri:/ > /febri:/.
> > The first stage may actually be <February> >
> <Febuary> - the latter
> > is a common misspelling.

but see Simpsonesque /fEbyueriy/
, , ,

> Would any you guys rhyme 'prob'ly' with 'wobbly'?

Sure, you hear it in the US

>
> I wouldn't, but maybe I'm using Danish
> morphophonology here,

Then something is rotten in Denmark

>according
> to which internal schwa can be elided in connected
> speech, but only if
> you leave enough markers that the lost vowel can be
> recovered by the
> listener (cf. French final schwa in the feminine).
> Torsten
>
>
>

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