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Re: A phonology

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Friday, July 25, 2003, 21:00
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. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637

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