Re: THEORY/YAEPT: Re: Terkunan: rules for deriving nouns, verbs, adjectives

On 11/2/07, T. A. McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:31:31 -0400, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
> said:
> > Could you elaborate on the pronunciations of those pairs?  Most of
> > them are perfect homophones IML.  (The exception being finger/singer,
> > which don't even have the same vowel in the first syllable.)
>
> What difference?
['fIN.gr\=] vs. ['siN.r\=].  In general IML, the /I/ in /-IN/ is an
[i] rather than an [I], including words that end in <-ink> - heck,
even in "linger", which should be identical to "finger" apart from the
F/L switch.  So I have no explanation for why "finger" is exceptional
this way.


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>