Re: Moraic codas [was Re: 'Yemls Morphology]
| From: | J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 12, 2001, 21:46 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> But see, I'm not sure that that's really a certain guide, since even
> educated English speakers do not always agree on the syllabification
> of English words they use everyday.
Actually, syllabification in English seems to be abnormally tricky because of the problem
of ambisyllabic consonants. My impression is that in most languages, speakers have no
trouble at all agreeing on how to syllabify a word.
Matt.
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