Re: A phonology

Quoting JS Bangs <jaspax@...>:

> 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.
You mean it's not ambisyllabic?

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