From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 17:36:44 EST
On 03/02/2004 11:58, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
>Peter Kirk scripsit:
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>>John, your phonology isn't actually even reasonable. [eng] occurs
>>intervocally in words like hanger, singing. Whether this is syllable
>>initial depends on your analysis.
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>Fair enough; but hang-er, sing-ing *is* the conventional analysis. English,
>generally speaking, defies the convention of preferring onsets to codas.
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So why not beh-ind, ah-ead, beeh-ive etc? Is there a good phonetic
reason? Or is it just that h is never syllable final? If the latter, the
reasoning looks rather circular to me.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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