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Re: YASPT

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 13:10
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> > >My mother's West Gautic dialect has it too. > > > > You mean the distinction or the merger? > > The distinction. > > 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? -- Tristan

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