Re: Self-Segregating Morphologies

On Tue, 14 May 2002 20:15:18 +0100, Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
wrote:

>At 10:29 pm -0400 13/5/02, Mike S. wrote:
>[snip]
>>
>>This reminds me of English prosody and stress, wherein every unstressed
>>syllable and most function words are reduced to their "weak" forms, i.e.,
>>each vowel is rendered as the schwa /@/, or sometimes short /i/, or
>>sometimes a short syllabic consonant such as [n_] appears.  Does this
>>bear any resemblance to your system?
>
>Oh dear - have I fallen into the trap of imitating my L1?
I don't think so.  Mostly it was me just brainstorming :-)