On 03/02/2004 11:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Kirk scripsit:
John, your phonology isn't actually even reasonable. [eng] occurs
intervocally in words like hanger, singing. Whether this is syllable
initial depends on your analysis.
Fair enough; but hang-er, sing-ing *is* the conventional analysis. English,
generally speaking, defies the convention of preferring onsets to codas.
So why not beh-ind, ah-ead, beeh-ive etc? Is there a good phonetic
reason? Or is it just that h is never syllable final? If the latter, the
reasoning looks rather circular to me.
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