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Allophony - a correction.

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Saturday, November 6, 1999, 16:28
At 11:30 am +0100 6/11/99, Raymond Brown wrote:
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> >Scots Gaelic, where "slender" (i.e. palatalized) /t/ has become [tS], cf. >'cat' [cat] "cat" ~ 'cait' [catS] "cats".
Ooops!! :=( That should, of course, be: 'cat' [kat] "cat" ~ 'cait' [katS] "cats". Apologies, Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================