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

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."
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