Phonology question

[Scot LaFaive]

>Where doesn't it work?

It seems like the principle doesn't work for some prefixes, such as
"distaste," but perhaps it isn't supposed to work there. I honestly know
some about it, though phonology wasn't a large part of my program and we
were merely told about the principle and that it works. Are there more
intricacies about it?

Scot

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Dennis Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:

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> Lots of us still like it. Where doesn't it work?
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> >This isn't a dialect question, but I know there are some smart
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> >on this list who can answer my question. I'm curious if the Maximal Onset
> >Principle is still considered valid in today's linguistics. I ask this
> >because sometimes it doesn't seem to be working in speech and I don't
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> >if another theory has taken its place. (Or maybe there are certain
> >environments it doesn't work in that I'm unaware of.)
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