Where is "pejorative" pronounced " ˈpejəˌrātiv"?

Upon looking up the word pejorative, I noticed two rather distinct pronunciations:

pəˈjôrətiv
ˈpejəˌrātiv

I naturally assumed the first (which is apparently the more common), but was wondering in what parts of the world the second pronunciation is commonly used.

Solution 1:

I think it may be be more of a question of when it was pronounced thus than where. Bryan Garner has this on the word:

Though once pronounced /pee-jər-ay-tiv/ (or, in BrE, /pee-jər-ə-tiv/), the predominant (and fully acceptable) pronunciation today is /pə-jor-ə-tiv/.

^{Garner's Modern American Usage}

My guess is that the earlier pronunciations were holdovers from the much older, but now rare, pejorate, /pee-jər-ayt/, (make worse, cause to deteriorate).

Solution 2:

I'm not aware of any historical, regional or dialectal associations for the second pronunciation, though I can't rule them out.

But I do think many could conciously or unconciously associate it with the word perjury.

The misspelling perjorative isn't uncommon, and I suspect this too might be influenced by phonetic proximity to the other word sharing some semantic territory in the general area of bad stuff, socially speaking.

Solution 3:

This pair is similar to the two ways of pronouncing territory: /təɹɪtoɹi/ and /təɹɪt(ʃ)ɹi/ where the unaccented o reduces to a schwa or is elided.

In dialects where people accentuate the /o/ in pejorative, the pronunciation will be like the first, whereas dialects which accentuate the first /e/ in pejorative will pronounce it the second way. Unfortunately, I am not very familiar with the features of different dialects and where they are spoken. Perhaps somebody else can help here.

I speak a dialect of English that accents the /o/ in territory and pejorative.