Re[2]: [tied] English Haplology and Degemination

At 6:19:22 AM on Saturday, March 1, 2008, Richard Wordingham
wrote:

> --- 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'.

>> 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/.

The last clause of the parenthetical expression, though, is
simply because I teach mathematics. <g>

> I was struck to notice that I pronounce the adjective and
> noun _parallel_ differently.

Interesting. Is your pronunciation of the noun more like
mine?

Brian