Re: English Haplology and Degemination (was meaning of the Germanic

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).

Torsten

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French final schwa died out
in the XVIth century,
in the northern spoken language

What do you mean ?

Arnaud

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