Re: me again

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> 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.
Right, although most languages which do have word-final devoicing
also have syllable-final devoicing, so typologically speaking, he
is correct in saying that one implies the other.

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