nuclear/nucular

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Oct 25 15:06:25 UTC 2002


At 9:34 AM -0400 10/25/02, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>What you want to note is simply
>>insertion (of a schwa) to break up the clumsy consonant-to-consonant
>>transition (or "cluster") of l+t. IN fact, although it is slightly
>>more complex, that is, after all, whjat is going on in the "nuclear"
>>example as well (where k+l is the villain).
>
>And I suppose "athaletic", "parapalegic", "masonary" (= "masonry") also
>show this trend?
>
Don't forget "jewelery"

larry



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