Re: CHAT: Paths etc (was: CHAT:Conscripts)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 6, 2007, 23:52 |
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On 8/6/07, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
> I think I have encountered white and black
> people alike who delete the /T/ in longer clusters such as in
> <strengths> and <twelfths>, with or without compensatory lengthening.
IME those clusters get reduced differently. The /N/ in the first one
becomes [n], which I guess is sort of a reduction if you squint
sideways, and the [f] disappears from the second: [twElTs].
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>