Re[2]: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

At 12:22:44 AM on Friday, May 23, 2003, Glen Gordon wrote:

> Jens:
>>English [z] is not in allophonic variation with [s], not
>>even word-finally. The two are opposed to each other in
>>hence : hens,

> Yes they are. This [z] is an allophone of [s] in the
> plural as shown by my examples.

No, /z/, /s/, and /&s/ are allomorphs of the plural
morphophoneme |Z|.

>>I do not think it is true that fricative [T] (thorn) is of
>>such a high frequency that your principles would permit
>>its being used as a word-final morpheme in the language.

> That's ridiculous. You don't know English if you think
> that "th" is uncommon. Hell, I just used [T] in the
> previous sentence (think)! Not very rare.

Unless you can produce some actual statistics, that's a
matter of opinion. /T/ is certainly one of the less common
English phonemes.

Brian