Re: -osyo 4 (was: Nominative Loss. A strengthened theory?)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> Richard:
> > Yep, three chrones allocated to two chronemes. Yucky but true.
>
> Not yucky and true, you mean. You're trying to prove that
> double-length isn't bizarre by using false examples. The above are
> NOT examples showing "double-long" in English. I already told you
> that. If you think _that's_ an example of double long, well then,
> my friend, it appears I have double-long vowels in mLIE! Afterall,
> I have *&, *&. and then *e/*a. You misunderstand what double-long
> means though. It means that there is a functional contrast between
> short, long and double-long. In English, there is no such contrast.
> Such a three-way contrast is rare as Piotr himself has already
> said.

As this has become Yet Another English Pronunciation Thread (YAEPT),
I have replied at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phoNet/message/672 . I also point out
an example of morphologically induced superlength in a dialect of
English.

Richard.