| From: | SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 1:07 |
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Danny Wier wrote:> /sits/ "sits" > /sit/ "sit" > /sis/ "sis" (< "sister")Hardly. That would be like claiming we have labialized fricatives in "sway". Or laterally released velars in "clean". Or palatalized bilabials in "putrid". No, doesn't make any sense from a phonemic or morphological point of view. Marcus