Re: THEORY: Ray on ambisyllabicity

And Rosta wrote:
> Yeah. We need to ask Dirk how he accounts for:
>
>   Sal   [saw]
>   Sally [sali]
>
> in demotic SE Insular English, if /l/ isn't in an onset in "Sally".
> Also:
I've noticed that all these different arguments are using different
dialects.  Is it not conceivable that in some dialects it *is*
ambisyllabic, while in others it isn't?  Or that some dialects have
/h&p.i/ while others have /h&.pi/, and perhaps some with ambisyllabic
consonants?  In my dialect, for instance, I can find no evidence to
support the idea of the "ambisyllabic" consonants as even being onsets,
yet it seems that in this dialect it is an onset.  I wonder, does that
dialect have evidence supporting /l/ as being a coda at all in Sally?

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