From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 54969
Date: 2008-03-10
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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: Re[3]: [tied] Mille (thousand)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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