See my blog http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com .
John Wells
Martin J Ball wrote:
> I have a Speech Pathology colleague (of many years standing) who I have
> heard several times recently pronounce 'obstruent' as /@b'str.../
> I was wondering whether this is just because it is a word she had not heard
> said often (though in this same meeting I had used it several times*), or
> whether this is a recognized US variant (not in John Wells 2nd ed though). Is
> this another example of stress shift as in 'debris'?
>
> *In this connection, in my current doctoral seminar I have notied on several
> occasions that students ask me for the correct pronunciation of a name or
> technical term, say thanks, and then use it consistently with a different
> pronunciation than I just gave...
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