11.572, Disc: Underlying Schwa?

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Subject: 11.572, Disc: Underlying Schwa?

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Date:  Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:27:18 +0200
From:  Rémy Viredaz <remy.viredaz at span.ch>
Subject:  Disc: Underlying Schwa?

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Date:  Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:27:18 +0200
From:  Rémy Viredaz <remy.viredaz at span.ch>
Subject:  Disc: Underlying Schwa?

Dear Linguists,

Some contributors to the discussion on underlying schwas refer to
"foreign cognates" as a criterion for analysing surface schwas.
Is it not going too far? In my opinion this use foreign (probably Latin)
cognates amounts to making diachronic linguistics while pretending not
to, i.e. making "underlying" a covert synonym of "Middle English".

Remy Viredaz, Geneva

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