Hey #linguisttwitter, words with pronunciation pairs for which one pronunciation is interpreted as genuine/emphatic in meaning but the other is not? Is this a general thing?
E.g., I've heard that Canadians may say /ˈsɔɹi/ when they are sorry, but /ˈsɑɹi/ when they are not. 1/3
E.g., I've heard that Canadians may say /ˈsɔɹi/ when they are sorry, but /ˈsɑɹi/ when they are not. 1/3
I came to think of "snygg" ('pretty, good-looking') in Swedish, which is pronounced /snʏɡː/ but sometimes /snœɡː/ (even spelled "snögg") when you don't really mean it: "Oh, is that a new sweater? {Snygg=👍;Snögg=👎}". 2/3
Not thinking so much about emphatic pronouns and such, more like the function of phoneme quality (rather than prosody etc.) to signal these things. 3/3
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