Date:    Wed, 13 May 1998 14:14:03 -0400
<br>From:    David Bergdahl <bergdahl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
<br>Subject: nativizing pronunciations
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<br>The other side of the coin of affective foreignizing is nativizing: my
<br>favorite is Russian "intelligentsia" with {dzh} rather than [g] in the
<br>antepenult syllable.  We say Kinder-Garden rather than [gartIn] and my
<br>previous example of lingerie with RAY rather than [ri] in the final
<br>syllable. Affective foreignizing may be one stage on the path to
<br>nativization--make the truly foreign sound a sterotypical foreign sound
<br>before assimilating it totally.
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