ORLAPUBS P. L87: RE#PRESENTATION? RE#CREATION?

RE#PRE+SENT OR RE+P~RE+SENT?
RE#CREATION OR RE+C~CREATION?
PRO#DUCE AND PRO+D~UCTIVITY

So many words are being ignorantly pronounced. Let's begin with the examples in the title of this page:

re#pre+sent	Where # or double-cross boundary is the boundary between a productive formative with its independent meaning; and where + separates purely formal formatives, many lacking semantic content altogether. Re# means "again." The syllable boundary coïncides with it #.
re#cre+at+ion
pre#de+cease
re+p~re+sent	Where the plus-boundary is as above and ~ is the syllable boundary--something that triggers the sound rule that changes the "ee" sound of re# to the "e" in rep and wreck. Latin-derived re+ has no independent meaning in English.
re+c~re+at+ion
pre+de+cess+or

The foregoing example illustrates an important principle of word-formation in English, which, as is evident, can affect the pronunciation of a formative. There are many other interesting examples that one could cite. SEE L5.html. Does the reader say scen#ic or scen+ic?* Does the reader pronounce the adjective as clean#ly or clean+ly--or does s/he say both with a semantic difference? The adverb is always clean#ly.) For example, lee+ward rhymes with steward, but in "re-compounded" lee#ward, each formative is pronounced as though it were a compound world like thought world or worldview. Contrast light+en#ing with light+n+ing as well as the first //n// in con+demn+ation with the same //n// in con+demn#ing or the //b// in the comparative form numb#er (= "more numb") with the //b// in the noun numb+er. Government has a pronunciation with and another without the first //n//; there is a semantic difference.
Those who understand the sound system of English will see the parallelism of the following as well as the influence of the stress accent on syllabization:

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*The sound rules of English are not known to many non-specialists. Yet, every native-speaker drops //v// at the end of 've and unstressed of when a consonant follows immediately. Everyone changes //t// to "ch" in don'tchu (cf. moisture and [in some tempos] mention, where //t// becomes "ch"; contrast other contexts like that in mo+t+ion, where //t// becomes "sh"). Cf. the change of //d// to "j" in didju (cf. procedure). For the principles of the English sound system, see Bailey, English phonetic transcription (SIL & UTA, 1985; corrigenda HERE).