Re: THEORY: final features, moras, and roots [was: it's what I do]

Marcus Smith wrote:
> It is omitted quite frequently by younger speakers.
Interesting.

> Perhaps they just generalized the _tu_ character for
> all such occurrences once the origin became opaque.
Interesting.  Still, I wonder if it was an arbitrary choice, or if there
was a reason?  Perhaps that was the most common occurrence?

Also, what about the voicing diacritic?  Based on my (admittedly scanty)
knowledge of Japanese, it appears that voicing was perhaps once
allophonic?  If so, what was the original conditioning factor?

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