Re: irregularities
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 13, 2001, 21:00 |
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David Peterson wrote:
> You know, everybody's been talking about /rEt/, but in the original he
> only mentioned "verbs whose present tense vowel are /i/, and whose past tense
> vowel are /E/". He didn't mention anything about the final consonant. It
> just so happened that all of the previous ones (accept one which he starred)
> could end with /t/.
But it was in the context of talking about verbs like "dreamt" that have
a /t/ in the past tense. Therefore, I thought he was giving verbs that
use /t/ in the past tense. He said that they formed a class with an
/i/-/E/ alternation.
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