Re: A phonology

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> Thomas Wier wrote:
> JS Bangs wrote:
> > > since /&/ is only supposed to occur in closed syllables.
> >
> > What about "yeah"?  This is /j&/ [j&:] for me.
> >
> Surely "yeah" is an exceptional form; I don't know where we ought to put it.
> Interjections and onomatopoeia, and sometimes personal names,  are allowed
> to violate phonological rules-- I guess I'd call yeah an interjection.
> Maybe yes-no words are allowed to violate too. (Austronesian *@q@ 'yes' has
> final open schwa, that doesn't occur otherwise.)
"Yeah" pops up in regard to ambisyllabicity and lax vowels in open syllables
every so often.

Many anglophones make it [jE@] or similar, which is the form I picked up.

                                                           Andreas