Re: Patterns of phoneme sequences in words

On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:25:47 GMT, John Atkinson
<johnacko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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sci.lang:

[...]

To tell the truth, after saying it to myself five hundred
times, I'm no longer able to tell whether I have [g] in
<wronger>. However, I definitely do have it in
<longest> and <strongest>. How about the rest of you?

Yes. Not mention in <longer>. But not in <longer>. <g>

[...]

In my (Australian) dialect, [g] is only added to [N]
morpheme-final when the following morpeme is comparative
<-er> or superlative.<-est>. Thus <longer>, 'more long'
and <longer> 'a person who longs' aren't homophones.

Likewise.

Brian
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