Re: R: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]
From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
Date: | Thursday, July 19, 2001, 20:46 |
Luca wrote:
>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.
You mean "physists" - "physicians" are medical people.
Andreas
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