Re: THEORY: no more URs! [was: Re: Optimum number of symbols]

Thomas R. Wier scripsit:

> But in German, final orthographic <g>s are not predictably pronouned
> as [k]:  the suffix -ig is usually pronounced as [IC], as [+continuous].
That is an artificial rule of the standard language, a compromise
between the North, which pronounces all final /g/ as [k], and the
South, which pronounces all final /g/ as [C ~ x].  My mother, whose
German was more nearly standard than most people's (qua non-peasant
family in a peasant village, plus being a teacher of German for
decades) sometimes relapsed into /tax/ for "Tag" and indeed
made a point of warning her students to do as she said, not as she did,
in this particular case.

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