Re: me again

JS Bangs scripsit:

> The analysis of these as single phonemes is motivated by the fact that
> Hiksilipsi allows no word-final consonants, which implies no consonants in
> coda positions--yet words such as /apsu/ are perfectly fine.
I think this goes too far.  German devoices word-final (and indeed
morpheme-final) stops, but "Pendler" 'commuter' has [d], though the syllabication
must be Pend-ler, not Pen-dler; the morpheme analysis is "Pend(e)l+er",
or perhaps "Pend+(e)l+er".  The existence of a word-final restriction need not
imply that the same restriction applies at the end of every syllable.

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han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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