"syllabicity"

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Jens and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen <jer at cphling.dk>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:53 AM

>> [Pat replied:]

>> If anyone has disputed that the *-e makes a difference, it is not I.
>> My point was, that you could just as easily notate the form as -*tV
>> since there is no contrasting -**ta or **-to.

>Jens replied:

> You seem to have a short memory! As the squashed quotations from the
> _same_ mail of yours show, you _did_ derive *-t and *-te from the same
> underlying form, and it just is wrong to give that form the notation
> *-tV in the case where there is no vowel.

Pat responds:

Sorry I did not make myself clear. *t(V) and *tV.

Pat

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