Re: A phonology

Thomas R. Wier sikyal:

> Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:
>
> > Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:
> > > Still, mightn't there be a tendency to reanalyze a word like
> > up.a > u.pa??
> >
> > FWIW, no such language exists TMK.
>
> I meant:  no language exists which divides /upa/ as [up.a].
My phonology teachers always claimed that English always divides /N/ to be
a coda, so that "singer" should be [siN.r=]. There's some acoustic
evidence for this, too.


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