Re: English Haplology and Degemination

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Would any you guys rhyme 'prob'ly' with 'wobbly'?

Yes.

> I wouldn't, but maybe I'm using Danish morphophonology here, according
> to which internal schwa can be elided in connected speech, but only if
> you leave enough markers that the lost vowel can be recovered by the
> listener (cf. French final schwa in the feminine).

In English, assimilations after syncopation are variable, so the /t/
in <pastry> and disyllabic <history> *may* be different. (We may be
talking of the neutralisation of the contrast between /tS/ and /t/
before /r/.)

Richard.