Re: /N/ vs /Ng/ (was: Re: English notation)

In a message dated 6/28/01 3:07:55 PM, alrivera@SOUTHERN.EDU writes:

<< I read somewhere (either this list or a different one) that the general
rule

for /N/ vs. /Ng/ is that the /g/ drops morpheme-finally but not

morpheme-medially (hence /&Ngr=/ 'anger' but /h&Nr=/ 'hang-er').  But for

some reason this doesn't generally apply before -er of comparison while it

does for -er of agency: you may have /lONr=/ but I have /lANgr=/ "longer:

more long", while "longer: one who longs" would be /lANr=/. >>

    My most recent linguistics teacher has this, too.  But, generally, I
think I can list all the words /Ng/ in my dialect: anger, hunger, hungry,
angry, finger, monger, bungler, angler, wrangler...  Things like that; all
natural nouns (either human, animal or abstract) that have been in English
for a while.  At least, I think that's it...

-David

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