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I pronounce there and their differently
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I wonder if it’s conditioned by word stress. “There” is usually the object of a phrase (and therefore stressed), while “their” usually modifies a following noun that gets the stress instead.
What about “there’s” vs “theirs”? Those would tend to have the opposite stress pattern.