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THEORY: ambisyllabicity & gemmination (was: final features, moras, and roots)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, October 8, 2000, 0:14
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000 15:10:02 +0100 Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
writes:
> Also, is the /p/ in English _happy_ really ambisyllabic? The > argument, as > I understand it, is that the lax vowels (/@/, /E/, /I/, /O/ and /U/) > never > occur in word final position, therefore they do not occur in > syllable final position.
- I don't know about your dialect, but i'm pretty sure that i pronounce the word "saw" as [sO], with possibly a slight schwa offglide. -Stephen (Steg) "You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there." ~ _jonathan livingston seagull_