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

Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:

> In Swedish, would it make se nse to say that syllable breaks were phonemic
> and length of neither consonants nor vowels was? So a (hypothetical) word
> like fori would be /fu.ri/ and forri would be /fur.i/? I'm probably
> showing my  ignorance on the matter here though :) And the fact that I
> don't know Swedish :)
You'd get into trouble analyzing pairs like _dam_ [dA:m] "lady" and _damm_
[dam:] "dust; dam".

                                                        Andreas

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