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From text to speech: The MITalk system
the voiced counterpart, zz. Like any other word containing a morph with more
than one homograph, this compound has been inspected in DECOMP to enssure
that the homograph listed first in the output file is the homograph having the same
part of speech as the word. Thus, SOUNDI, choosing the first pronunciation for
all morphs, picks the correct nominal pronunciation.
The lexical pronunciation of ’s is 18 zz. In this case, the pronunciation ss
must be substituted since the preceding segment is an unvoiced TT.
A third change to houseboat’s is due to the operation of the compound stress
rule. This rule assigns primary stress to the leftmost root in a word containing
more than one root, reducing the stress on the rightmost root. Thus, the stress on
boat is reduced to 2-stress.
Two other changes are demonstrated in the word reflection. Lexical pronun-
ciation of the prefix re is RR 1Y. Because flect is a bound root and re carries no
stress, the pronunciation of re is changed to RR IH. One of the two suffixes that
cues palatalization is also encountered in this word. The segment TT at the end of
the pronunciation of flect is a member of the set of alveolars that palatalizes in this
context. In the output file, TT has been changed to sH. It is unnecessary to
change the pronunciation of ion since it is entered in the lexicon in its desired
