Re: THEORY: free variation [was: Re: [OT] Re: Conlangea Dreaming]
| From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 12, 2000, 4:14 |
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dirk elzinga wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> > <bewildered look> What's free variation?
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>Relevant example from Shoshoni:
Why go all the way to Shoshoni? We have examples of it in English as well.
For instance, "envelope" can be pronounced as [Env@lop] or [anv@lop]. Then
there's the famous [tometo] vs. [tomato] song, extendable to [poteto] vs.
[potato].
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