Re: CHAT: An introduction
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 1, 2004, 12:13 |
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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