Re: Rs
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 17:54 |
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At 09:00 1.4.2003 +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Phonemically I'd want to write this
>/to:r/, /tor/, /s}:r/, /s}r/, but people are going to disagree about what is
>phonemic as regards to long vowel plus short consonant vs vice versa.
Can't imagine what people that might be! ;-)
Actually I'm quite happy to agree to disagree,
but how would [kUk] in [kUkt] _kokt_ "cooked" and [ku:k] in ["ku:ka]
_koka_ "to cook" be the same morpheme then?
And yes I know what the transcription of those morphemes look like...
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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