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Re: THEORY: Th- words (was: RE: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes)

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Saturday, July 3, 1999, 23:28
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:57:23 -0300 > From: FFlores <fflores@...>
> The author I read used this as a kind of evidence favoring the idea > that the difference between formal and content words can be > reflected by specific phonological features. What do y'all think?
Phrase it like this: Some function words occured unstressed so often that they got initial /D/ instead of /T/ when the phonemes 'split'. And the function words in th- are enough of a category in English (demonstratives and similar) for analogy to level them all to /D/. And *poof* your magical function-word marking feature goes away. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)