Re[3]: [tied] Mille (thousand)

At 4:16:38 PM on Sunday, March 9, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> From: Daniel J. Milton

>> Would anyone but a linguist "surmise" or "reanalyse" an
>> s-mobile? Isn't the s mobile because it comes and goes
>> naturally without thought by the speakers?

> I don't think something can come and go without thought.

> (in linguistics or in porn likewise)

Happens all the time in ordinary speech: for <cat> a single
speaker may say [kæt], [kæ?t], or [kæ?] and never notice
that the [t] has disappeared completely from the last. A
speaker very likely won't notice that <wouldn't> ['wUdnt]
has become [wUnt]. And so on.

Brian