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Re: Quantity shift (was: Re: Native grammatical terms)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, November 22, 2003, 14:40
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 03:31 22.11.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote: > > >Not that it falsifies the point that there are complications to either > >interpretation, but in my 'lect, those both get a long vowel; [ho:d`] and > >[ho:t`], respectively. > > Maybe there are really DEEP differences between our 'lects! :)
Perhaps ... While in my 'lect both long and short vowels can go before the voiceless retroflexes ([t`] and [s`]), only long ones are found before the voiced ones ([n´], [d`] and [l`]*). However, it seems the short vowel plus voiceless retroflex combos invariably has a morpheme boundary in them, which makes the phonemicity of the length distinction (whether we want to place it the vowel or consonant) questionable in this position, apparent minimal pairs like _fars_ [fas`:] "farce" and _fars_ [fA:s`] "father's" notwithstanding. * I'm quite certain my ideolect didn't have [l`] only a few years ago, but I've somewhy acquired it since. Andreas

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