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In article <1992Oct30.035008.26702@midway.uchicago.edu>, goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:

[...]

I've been reluctant to try to do phonology in ASCII; it's too
daunting.  But I'll pick up on one item:

> Do syllables need to be represented in the
> lexicon? 

[...]

Syllables cannot in general be represented in the lexicon if the
lexicon is seen as as list of morphemes, because in many (most?) languages
morpheme boundaries don't coincide with syllable boundaries.  Note how
for example French "carte d' identite" syllabifies.  In many languages
a morpheme may be a single consonant or a single vowel.

On the other hand, in some theories the lexicon contains full-fledged
words.  Even so, for numerous languages there is evidence that
re-syllabification has to occur after certain other phonological
rules, such as vowel copying rules, epenthesis rules or deletion
rules.  So I think most phonologists today are pretty sure that
syllabification is not lexical.
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