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In article <1992Oct31.162453.23536@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
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|I've always love the terms "extrametrical" and "extrasyllabic."  Let me
|translate:  We don't know what the hell to do with them, but we'll tack
|them on somehow or other.  What I'd like to know is whether the extramet-
|rical objects are rigidly defined by the system, so that their presence
|is predictable and systematically accounted for.  ...

Well, I cannot really answer your question, but it does remind me of an
odd case.  In Hebrew schwa's are often (always?) treated as extra-syallabic.
[That is they do not count to the syllable count).  In fact the Hebrew
word we say as "schwa" is, in Hebrew, something like "shvwa"  (where the
'v' represents a non-syllabic schwa - traditionally romanized as a super-
script reverse 'e').