night rate nitrate Nye Trait

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 5/7/05 8:18:17 PM, zimman at SFSU.EDU writes:


> Laurence Horn wrote:
> 
> >Nice, although not quite as memorable as Bloomfield's minimal pair
> >for juncture, "catch it" vs. "cat shit".  I also recall (although not
> >the source) "night rate", "nigh trait", and "Nye trait", although
> >maybe I'm misremembering because I don't see now how the latter two
> >were supposed to contrast, and in any case not as...catchy as
> >Bloomfield's example.
> >
> >
> Maybe it was "night rate" vs. "nitrate"?
> 
> 
> -Lal
> 
> 

> I have always used all three when teaching Intro: "night rate" vs. 
> "nitrate" vs. "Nye trait." I think I got them from Hockett's 1958 Course in Modern 
> Linguistics, which was the textbook in the Intro to Linguistics class I took as 
> an undergraduate.