From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 54961
Date: 2008-03-10
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From: Brian M. Scott
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
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None of your examples is a morpheme
nor an initial phoneme.
It's just colloquialisms.
Hence they are irrelevant
when it comes to #s-
which is both initial and morphemic.
Arnaud
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