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Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Saturday, July 19, 2003, 3:16
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > En réponse à Mark J. Reed : > > >How about "see her" vs. "singer"? (In my 'lect, at least, the 'i' > >in "-ing" is [i], not [I]). > > Examples involving word breaks are always a bit weak for me ;))) .
There are things like "reheat"/"singing" (can't think of any actual minimal pairs, but that's still both intervocalic), altho that's still a morphemic boundary. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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