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

Matt Pearson 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&@].

Plus, exclamations and onomatopoeic words may contain sounds that violate
phonotactics, or may not even be used in "normal" language.  Of course
another æ: baa, as in sheep/goats. I've heard final [x] in "yuck", "blech".
I'm still stuck with midwestern/Germanic/Scandinavian [ja:] "yah"-- how our
schoolmarms hated that!  For me,[jæ] is mainly derisory (oh yeah, right!),
or sing-along with the Beatles (cats run and hide).

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