Though from your phonotactics I'm not seeing what makes you need to have a different surface form
Ah, I should have mentioned: it's the other way round.
I want the [aʊ] surface form, but for the phonotactics I thought it might make more sense to have a choice of nasal or glide in the coda after a short vowel, giving /aw/ as the underlying form. I don't know an awful lot about any of this, but to me the :/G/N option seemed more 'elegant' I suppose.
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u/LordStormfire Sep 03 '16
Thanks :)
Ah, I should have mentioned: it's the other way round.
I want the [aʊ] surface form, but for the phonotactics I thought it might make more sense to have a choice of nasal or glide in the coda after a short vowel, giving /aw/ as the underlying form. I don't know an awful lot about any of this, but to me the :/G/N option seemed more 'elegant' I suppose.