[Lingtyp] query: 1st syllable deletion

[Cat Butz]

To me, it feels more like a morphosyntactic thing rather than a 
phonological one. Consider e.g.

(Does that) Feel good, baby?
(Did you) Have any luck?

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Cat Butz (she/they)
HHU Düsseldorf, General Linguistics
Institute of Language and Information

Cat Butz (sie)
HHU Düsseldorf, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Institut für Sprache und Information


Am 2022-10-28 14:11, schrieb David Gil:
> Dear all,
> 
> English seems to have  a rule which, under particular conditions,
> allows for the first syllable of an utterance to be deleted.  The
> first example below is from a movie that I saw last night, the next
> two are made up:
> 
> (1) (What) The fuck happened to you?
> 
> (2) (Are) You going home yet?
> 
> (3) (I) Think it's gonna rain
> 
> And there's also the formulaic "Wish you were here".
> 
> My questions:
> 
> 1. Has anybody written about this? Seems like it could be interesting
> for a number of reasons.
> 
> 2. Are there similar phenomena in other languages? (Haven't seen
> anything like it in the other languages I happen to be familiar with.)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
> --
> David Gil
> 
> Senior Scientist (Associate)
> Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
> Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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> 
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