Re: Optimum number of symbols

Christophe wrote:
>En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> >
> > My impression is that many/most of those silent |e|'s and |s|'s,
> > phonemically speaking, are still around. Can you give me a good reason
> > to
> > believe that, say, "grand" does not contain an underlaying /d/ that
> > gets
> > realized as [t] or [d] in certain circumstances?
>
>No you can't,
I can't figure out what part of my message above could possibly take "No you
can't" as an answer. Anyways ...

>because final /d/ is possible in French and is normally only ever
>realised as [d]. This phoneme that appears at the end of "grand" and which
>can
>be realised as [t], [d] or disappear couldn't possibly be a /d/.
You learn something new everyday. Just to be perfectly clear: there is final
pronounced [d] that cannot be blamed on a following, normally unpronounced,
schwa, left there by linguistic history or later analogy?

                                                            Andreas

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