Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 22:59:12 -0400

From: "Peter L. Patrick" PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU

Subject: Re: Stoled



Oh yeah. I started cause I was gonna point out that, though Terry

quite rightly says final preterite -d is often deleted after /l/, it's

less often deleted than either mono-morphemic -d ("cold") or than -d

after any other consonant. /l/ is the least favoring preceding environment

for TD-Deletion, both in empirical findings and in terms of the sonority

hierarchies often invoked to explain them.

--peter patrick