Re: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]
| From: | J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 14, 2001, 0:23 |
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David Peterson wrote:
> In a message dated 7/13/01 11:42:38 AM, artabanos@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU writes:
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> << Vowels like /&/ can't end in a syllable in English, >>
Actually, I'm the one who claimed that, and it should of course read "vowels
like /&/ can't end a syllable in English".
> Oh, yeah [j&:], you're right. :)
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&@].
Matt.