"syllabicity"

[Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen]

On Sat, 22 May 1999, Patrick C. Ryan wrote:

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

Your original statement was that the very existence or non-existence of a
vowel in the ending did not matter, and that a one-vowel system of this
kind was in effect a no-vowel system. Now cornered, you make brackets
matter. You have now arrived at a two-vowel system in which there are
(V) and V opposed to each other - and to zero.

Jens