Re: THEORY: picking nits [was Re: average syllables per word?]
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 27, 1999, 19:05 |
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dirk elzinga wrote:
> and the only
> consonants allowed following the diphthongs [oi] and [aw] are alveolar;
[snip]
> [Caveat lector:
> the forgoing information is my recollection of an English phonology
> seminar I participated in about 3 years ago; counterexamples are
> probable and welcome!]
Well, there are words like "foible", but I'm not sure if that's
syllabified as foi-ble or foib-le, if the first, your point is still
valid, if the second, that's a counterexample. I feel that there are
others, but for the life of me, I can't find any.
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