Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:50:51 +0200, Marco Cimarosti
> <marco.cimarosti@...> wrote:
>
> > If the geminated consonant is a fricative (such as the "ss" in "asso",
> > 'ace'), its sound is actually prolonged, and it spans from the end of the
> > first syllable to the beginning of the second one.
>
> One of the newer announcers on radio station WBUR in Boston is a young
> woman named Gina Cervetti (sp probably correct). When she spoke her own
> name on the air, she tied the end of her first name to the beginning of
> her last name with an "s" sound, as if it were Ginassservetti. It took
> months for her to learn to put silence between her names. She's a native
> English speaker.

Months after starting work at WBUR, she started mispronouncing her name?
I wonder why.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...