Re: R: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]

And wrote:

> > But you surely know much, much more than I do on this matter...
>
> Not really. The nice thing about phonology is that you don't need to know
> a lot in order to do it.
<retranslating from Italian into English>

"Phonology has, within social sciences, the same innovator task nuclear
physics has had, for instance, within numeric sciences"
Lévi-Strauss

It's true we don't need the most modern labs in order to study phonologic
structures of languages, while phisicians use the most modern technologies
to study muons etc. Our mouth's often enough, true, but phonology is not
_so_ simple :-)

Luca

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