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

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 18:15:46 +1000, tristan alexander mcleay <zsau@...> wrote:

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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' ['+ACY-f.tr=]
>>'constant' ['k+AF8-han.st+AEA-nt]
>>'mixture' ['mIks.tSr=]
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>I think that in my dialect, long vowels like to be counted as a
>vowel+ACs-consonant (two mora?), so 'after' is syllabified ['A:.ft+AEA-]. But I
>can't think of any words that start with /ft/, so that rule must be
>stronger for me
Evil something somewhere along the way... that was '...vowel+consonant...' and ['A:.ft@]

Tristan