On Monday 22 July 2002 14:14, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> Quoting Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>:
> > /Tejl/
>
> Surely you would not disagree with a phonemic /D/?
Of course, I was in a hurry and not thinking. I pronounce it /D/, but got the
orthography stuck in my head. *blush*
> > [Present Perfect]
> > /ajv/
>
> In my own pronunciation, I often drop the [v] entirely:
> "I gotta go".
Ditto here. One wonders what the future of "gotta" and "hafta" will be...
> In general, I would disagree with the proposition that these
> cliticized verb forms are evidence that English are likely
> someday to mark tense on nouns. Evidence that they're still
> clitics comes from grammatical constructions like the following:
I did not say _likely_, I said _possibly_. Big difference. :)
:Peter