Re: A phonology
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 26, 2003, 6:06 |
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Thomas Wier wrote:
JS Bangs wrote:
> > since /&/ is only supposed to occur in closed syllables.
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> What about "yeah"? This is /j&/ [j&:] for me.
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Surely "yeah" is an exceptional form; I don't know where we ought to put it.
Interjections and onomatopoeia, and sometimes personal names, are allowed
to violate phonological rules-- I guess I'd call yeah an interjection.
Maybe yes-no words are allowed to violate too. (Austronesian *@q@ 'yes' has
final open schwa, that doesn't occur otherwise.)
Us country boys say sheep go [b&::], but it's [bA:] for Yalies....
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