Re: A phonology
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 25, 2003, 21:00 |
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Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:
> Peter Bleackley wrote:
> > Syllable structure
> >
> > [O]V[C]
> >
> > Where O is an onset consonant and C is a coda consonant. Codas are about
> > twice as common as onsets.
> >
> IIRC that's a big violation of Optimality Theory, not that it matters.....
It's not just a violation of OT. It's also a violation of any
basic typological description of syllable structure. Such
languages are vanishingly rare.
> Still, mightn't there be a tendency to reanalyze a word like up.a > u.pa??
FWIW, no such language exists TMK.
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