From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 54384
Date: 2008-03-01
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"[...]
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>> At 8:24:49 PM on Friday, February 29, 2008, Richard
>> Wordingham wrote:
>>> Try the near tongue twister 'parallel lines'.The last clause of the parenthetical expression, though, is
>> For me there's still perceptible stress on [lEl]; at the
>> moment I'm too self-conscious to say whether it's tertiary
>> or equal secondary with [laInz]. If any syllable is going
>> to drop out, it's the second. (And far from being a near
>> tongue-twister, for me it's a rather ordinary expression!)
> That's because *you* don't come close to have a sequence
> of non-syllabic, syllabic and then non-syllabic /l/.
> I was struck to notice that I pronounce the adjective andInteresting. Is your pronunciation of the noun more like
> noun _parallel_ differently.