31 suppose that it has the function of a preclausal determiner (. a determiner introducing the following italicised clause Randy Rabbit runs Benny’s Bunny Bar) in sentences such as (49b). However, there is evidence against a determiner analysis of the complementiser that. Part of this is phonological in nature. In its use as a complementiser (in sentences such as (49b) above), that typically has the reduced form /ð¶t/, whereas in its use as a determiner (. in sentences such as (49a) above), that invariably has the unreduced form /ðæt/: the phonological differences between the two suggest that we are dealing.
