Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")

jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> where # indicates a morpheme boundary.  Thus, "sing" is underlying
> /sing/; "ringer" is ['riNr=] because of the morpheme boundary
> /ring#+er/; "finger" is [fiNgr=] because it's a single morpheme.  Does any
> one (read: Dirk) care to disagree?
Hmm, interesting view.  Ah!  Just found an exception: longer = (at least
in my dialect) /lANgr=/, same with "longest" = /lANgIst/.  Also, there's
a theater in my home town called /sejNr=/ (can't remember the spelling),
monomorphemic, but does not have /Ng/.  By your theory, it should be
pronounced [sejNgr=]

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