Re: Extra Syllabic Consonants

Chris Bates wrote:
> I think one of the biggest things that puts me off modern linguistics is
> that so many of its practitioners seem to have rejected the empirical
> approach... the field linguistic whose interest is mainly in the
> practical and real world would come away very disappointed from a lot of
> modern linguistics courses it seems to me.
>
Away back in the 60s-70s, when Chomskyism and old-fashioned Linguistics were
fighting it out--- a Prof. of mine commented to the effect:

"When you've just given your presentation on the phonology and morphology of
the Amazonian language you've spent 3 years in the field working on...it
doesn't go over well when some MIT type stands up to comment, 'But that's
trivial'..."  :-)) or :_((