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Re: THEORY: Allophones

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 6, 1999, 14:00
Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:8
>=20 > FFlores wrote: > > In this particular case, I have a daughter of Drasel=E9q, > > Curco, where /v/ has the allophones [v] and [w] (the > > latter when syllable-final), and there's also /w/ as > > a different phoneme. >=20 > Here's my question, can the allophone /w/ occur in syllable-final > position? If so, then what you have is a phonological rule that /v/ --= > > /w/ when syllable-final. If not ... well, I still think that that case > would be a phonological rule that /v/ --> /w/, but I'm not entirely sur=
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> there.
Maybe you're right and I'm confusing the terms. I guess I'm trying to make a distinction between syllable-final /w/ (that *does* exist) and syllable-final /v/ realized as [w]. I mean, if you have two roots /tav/ and /taw/ and you use them as words, both are pronounced [taw], but if you inflect them by adding /es/ you have [taves] and [tawes] respectively. This is also an orthographic problem. I'll probably have to use <u> for syllable-final /v/ =3D [w], and <w> for syllable-final /w/. --Pablo Flores * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross-references.