Re: alternative pronunciations of 'naive'

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analyst41@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Jan 28, 2:46 am, Ruud Harmsen <realemailons...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:39:09 -0800 (PST): "Peter T. Daniels"
<gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

On Jan 27, 10:07 pm, sobriquet <dohduh...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a difference between the two alternative pronunciations of
'naive' atwww.m-w.comordid
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?

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/naive

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

The sound fragments are identical, if only because they have exactly
the same filename.
--
Ruud Harmsen  http://rudhar.comhttp://rudhar.hyves.nl

Ah, the wonders of language. I also couldn't hear a difference, but
apparently some in this thread have convinced themselves that they
heard one.

Who?

"Some in this thread" commented on M-W's two different
*transcriptions*, but I think everyone who has said anything about the
audio files has agreed that they sound/are the same.

Nathan

--
Nathan Sanders
Linguistics Program
Williams College
http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders/
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