Re: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]

Nik wrote:

>On a related note, would it be realistic for a language to distinguish
>between, for instance, /tandu/ and /tan=du/?
In some dialects of English (like mine), the distinction between
'lightening' and 'lightning' is a syllabic nasal vs. a nasal onset:
[laIt.n=.iN] vs. [laIt.niN]. Based on this, it wouldn't be too suprising to
find a language that had the same distinction with a coda position,
especially since languages have a strong tendency to have an onset than to
have a coda.

>   In my U-descendant, /na/
>becomes /n@/ which then becomes /n=/, but U already has /n/ as a coda,
>so Classic U /tandu/ would become /tandu/, but /tanadu/ would become
>/tan=du/
>
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