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Re: Self-Segregating Morphologies

From:Mike S. <mcslason@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 3:41
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 :-)