![]() I don't think "basically" is a good example, because I doubt that it really has 4 syllables (even though its spelling suggests it does). Of your examples, "finely" with 2 syllables sounds best, to me. It could happen for some English speakers, but I'm not so sure it actually does. Spoken English is nothing like the way it's spelled. Any unstressed syllable is centralized (i.,e the vowel usually becomes /ə/) and reduced (usually by simplifying or deleting consonant clusters). ![]() 'pərsnəli/ is more likely than /''pərsənli/, but is right. The linguists John Lawler and Greg Lee left comments beneath the question indicating that this kind of reduction is plausible:
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