Re: /T/ -> /t_d/?
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 30, 2004, 5:50 |
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:11:59 -0600, Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:26:33 +0200, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
> > And monomorphemically: "thigh" vs "thy".
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> The monomorphy of "thy" is disputable, though. Certainly there are no
> _productive_ morphemes, but it's the same possessive -y added to "my"
> and the same second-person "th" in "thou" and "thine".
Hm... I think I see the point.
> [It's a bit pedantic maybe, but the rule usually given by people who want
> to say that /D/ is not a phoneme is that it seems to occur instead of /T/
> at certain morpheme boundaries.)
Does that mean that "bathe" is made up of two morphemes? Since for me,
I have "bathe" [bEjD] contrasthing with "bath" [bA:T] and if the rule
that selects [D] vs [T] is related to morphemes, I suppose that means
that that the -e is a verb-producing morpheme, or something?
(Similarly with breath/breathe, I suppose, and possibly cloth/clothe.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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