Re: English questions
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 23, 2003, 16:32 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Leigh
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: English questions
>John Cowan wrote:
>
>> > I assume (b) must have happened before (a), since e.g. /nixt/ had to
> >> have become /ni:t/ (loss of /x/ + compensatory lengthening) before the
> >> GVS in order for Modern English to have ended up with /najt/.
>
>> Quite right. Of course in Scots the vowel is still short.
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>Yup; they say /nixt/, er, [nIxt]. For that matter, they still have /la:x/
and /@njux/ (laugh and enough)!
>
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Scots |nicht| pronounced [nIx], with a
silent |t|