Re: alternative pronunciations of 'naive'

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:26:49 -0500, Nathan Sanders
<nsanders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in sci.lang:

In article
<9c696330-7c1e-4bc2-b23a-63048ec4103b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 27, 10:07 pm, sobriquet <dohduh...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there a difference between the two alternative pronunciations of
'naive' atwww.m-w.comor did
they erroneously link up an identical audio fragment to both?
Just curious, perhaps I'm not listening carefully enough, but I can't
make out any differences between the two.

Where do you see alternative pronunciations?

It simply gives you a pronunciation that goes with either of the
spellings (with or without dieresis).

They list two pronunciations that, following their
transcription, come out roughly as [nA.iv] and [naI.iv].
I don't think I've ever heard a native speaker (of
English!) use the former, but then again, the difference
is so subtle that I'm not sure I'd notice if I weren't
specifically listening for it.

I don't think that I've ever heard a native speaker of
English say anything but [nA'i:v] or similar.

Brian
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