Re: YASPT
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 11, 2003, 3:35 |
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At 14:09 9.12.2003, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> >
> > She and my brother once had a delicious argument whether _fem_ "five" and
> > _hem_ "home" rhyme, problem being that they failed to notice she's
> saying [fEm]
> > and [hem], he's [fEm] and [hEm].
>
>Hmm, perhaps I'm confused, but I thought you needed to have a long
>syllable if it's stressed, and that length came from either two codas
>(geminate consonant or cluster) or a long vowel. Am I missing something?
Swedish orthography cheats by not noting all
geminates as such, final _m_ being the most
usual casualty. Also Andreas' 'lect seems
to be in transition from distinctive consonant
length to distinctive vowel length, or has
already gone trough that shift. Hence our
endless rehashing of that subject.
/BP 8^)
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