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Re: CHAT: An introduction

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Sunday, August 1, 2004, 12:13
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 06:50:37 -0500, Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
wrote:

> If, say, all front vowels get raised before nasals (a rule > I happen to have in my own dialect of English), then if /a/ undergoes > this > rule, that would be evidence it is a front vowel. If it doesn't, then > it's > a back vowel.
Either that, or (and here's my weird brain working too hard), it means that the rule is bad. Paul