7. Bigly or Big League?
 "Did he say bigly?" This question had been asked repeatedly on social media soon after the then-candidate Donald Trump was reported to use the word during the first US presidential debate. Many wondered whether bigly was really an English word or a "Trumpism" presumably derived from big and the adverb suffix -ly. However, based on acoustic analyses, some phoneticians argued that what Mr. Trump actually said was big league but the final /g/ in his league was just difficult for the untrained ear to detect. Figure 2 shows the waveform and spectrogram of Trump's production of what appears to be Figure 1 Donald Trump, the to-be ambiguous between bigly and big league. Look at the figure. president of the most powerful What are the acoustic cues to final /g in league? Name at least  TWO of them.
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