Re: YASPT
| From: | Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 13:10 |
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > >My mother's West Gautic dialect has it too.
> >
> > You mean the distinction or the merger?
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> 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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