"syllabicity"

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Rich and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Rich Alderson <ALDERSON at netcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 8:11 PM

I agree with most everything you have written here.

> If by "overly 'school'-oriented" you mean that I accept the findings of one
> particular theory of phonology in preference to other competing theories, I
> plead _nolo contendere_.  If you mean rather that I think Lehmann *must* do
> everything as a structuralist because he did most things as one, you
> misunderstand my entire point:  I do not insist that if he did anything as a
> structuralist he must do everything that way; rather, I am simply stating the
> fact that on the evidence of his writings themselves, he *did* do things
> strictly as a structuralist.

But, Leo has persuaded me that Lehmann might not have used the structuralist
terminology in the case of "syllabicity" in a totally consistent manner.

Pat

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