Re: "I'm coffee and he's espresso." -- facially nonsensical
From: Brian M. Scott (b.scott_at_csuohio.edu)
Date: 06/14/04
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:52:49 -0400
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:23:39 +0200 Ruud Harmsen
<realemailseesite01@rudhar.com> wrote in
<news:l7rrc09nb2q37j5tbn9tps2ri4k5aa2ll7@4ax.com> in
uk.culture.language.english,sci.lang,alt.usage.english:
> Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:05:11 -0400: "Brian M. Scott"
> <b.scott@csuohio.edu>: in sci.lang:
>>I hear most varieties of BrE <latter> as having the /t/ in
>>the second syllable,
> How can you hear that? How would it sound different if the t were in
> the first syllable?
For one thing, the vowel would be shorter. Secondly, I
sometimes hear a break in the voicing, even a
pre-aspiration, before the /t/.
> What is the phonetic, articulatory reality behind
> syllable boundaries?
Who knows? If there is any, I rather suspect that it
depends on one's theory.
> Aren't syllables abstractions without much
> reality value?
What kind of reality? They certainly can have psychological
reality, which is the only sort that I actually had in mind
when I made the original comment.
[...]
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