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

David Peterson wrote:

> A couple years ago when I taught phonotactics in my intro linguistics class,
> I brought up "yeah" as an exception to the otherwise solid generalization
> that English words don't end in non-low lax vowels (other than [O] and
> schwa).  To my suprirse, a number of the students objected, claiming that
> they hear a schwa at the end of that word--[j&@].
Pronouncing "yeah" with an [&] is new to me.

[je@] and [je:] are both common.

[jE@] and [jE:] also believable. Reference points on the [e]->[E]->[&]->[a]
continuum can be hard to pin down, and I don't think my dialect has [E] so
I have difficulty distinguishing it.

Adrian.