Re: the lonely affricate
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 25, 1999, 21:58 |
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"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
> On the other hand, no one will set up
> /ts/ and /dz/ as affricates even though we have words like 'flotsam' and
> 'weds'.
Well, in "weds", the -/z/ is an inflection, and thus not the same
morpheme. And, in "flotsam", at least in my pronunciation, it's divided
between syllables, /flot.s@m/, plus there's there's the fact that we can
have no word-initial /ts/, borrowings like "tsunami" are typically
/sunami/. At least, that's the explanation I've heard from my phonology
teacher, an affricate must be in the same syllable AND morpheme.
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