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

dirk elzinga wrote:


> If the <o> is construed as tense, then 'pro-duct'; if it
> construed as lax, then 'prod-uct'.

Non-North-American syllabication tends to be based on etymology
rather than phonology, hence "pro-duct" even though the o
is, indeed, tense.

In the end, one looks in the dictionary, which is mostly a
summary of the blunders made by one's predecessors.

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