[Lingtyp] contrast between [ɪ] and [e]

[Christian Lehmann]

Hi Randy and David,

assume that you form the set of sandhi forms (say, allophonic variants  
of a word form) of a base by a set of rules; then the methodological 
problem is to determine the base which allows for the most simple and 
general set of rules. It seems to me that it is a prelinguistic idea to 
assume that this base is the citation form. The citation form is 
necessarily a form in pausa. But pausa is a rather specific context. 
Just for another example, you would not want to derive the variants of 
the nominative singular of a Sanskrit masculine noun from the citation 
form. It may be an interesting methodological question to investigate 
whether there is something like a neutral phonological context in which 
a word form appears which may serve as our base form.

Christian

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