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Re: A phonology

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Friday, July 25, 2003, 21:06
Quoting JS Bangs <jaspax@...>:

> Peter Bleackley sikyal: > > 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. > > This is not a fatal error, but it is an exception: in all natural > languages, onsets are more common than codas.
Not all; there is a single language, in Australia, that has been claimed to have no onsets. (It has V and VC syllables only.) But I agree entirely: that is an exception that proves the rule. ========================================================================= 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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