Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 7, 2003, 10:35 |
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At 16:12 6.2.2003 -0500, Steg Belsky wrote:
>Maybe it's 'ambisyllabic', or whatever the |pp| in English "happy" is
>called.
IMNSHO "ambisyllabicity" is only an ill-choosen term for 'underlying
geminate that gets de-geminated on the surface'.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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