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Sun 12 May, 2013 01:41 am
Context:
“I have 300 patients right now, and I think I have about 20 who are suffering from this type of heart failure, which we sometimes call diastolic heart failure,” said Lee. “They come into the hospital, have a lot of fluid taken off, then they’ll go home. Then they come back again. It’s really frustrating because we don’t have any drugs to treat this. We need to work as hard as we can to figure out if this discovery can be turned into a treatment for heart failure in our aging patients.”
@oristarA,
It seems a neutral placement for a neutral 'can', Ori.
@JTT,
JTT wrote:
It seems a neutral placement for a neutral 'can', Ori.
What? Failed to understand you, JTT.
My question:
Is
can here read as /kæn/ or /kən/ in "if this discovery can be turned into a treatment"?
@oristarA,
Both are commonly used, just depends on the speaker. I think with a British accent, /kæn/ would be used. Otherwise it's /kən/, especially when spoken quickly.
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