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

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>Not that those are the correct syllables in a linguistic sense.  Leaving
>aside ambisyllabic consonants, English syllabification goes mostly
>according to the Maximal Onset Principle--anything that can start a word
>can and should start a syllable.  In my dialect:
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>'middle' ['mI.dl=]
>'after' ['&f.tr=]
>'constant' ['k_han.st@nt]
>'mixture' ['mIks.tSr=]
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I think that in my dialect, long vowels like to be counted as a
vowel+consonant (two mora?), so 'after' is syllabified ['A:.ft@]. But I
can't think of any words that start with /ft/, so that rule must be
stronger for me

Tristan