Re: more English orthography

Marcus Smith wrote:

> That basic point still stands, that I don't see how we could find an
> underlying
> pronunciation for the schwa in "comma."  It may be best to consider it a
> phoneme.  I just don't know how to test that.
In such a situation, I'd just do another "wug" test as you did before:  come
up with a derivational morpheme, say, <t-ic> to get <commatic>*.  Now,
how would most people pronounce it?  My native intuition says [k_h@m&rIk],
where [r] is a voiced tap.

*(I know that sounds weird, but is it weird because the morphology is
wrong, or weird because we never talk about the "comma"(+adj)
nature of things?)


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