English language modules expand punctuation with ph="null"

[ftesser]

This is the English TEXT to PHONEMES of TEXT=punto.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<maryxml xmlns="http://mary.dfki.de/2002/MaryXML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="0.5" xml:lang="en-US">
<p>
<voice name="cmu-slt-hsmm">
<s>
<t g2p_method="lexicon" ph="' p u n - t @U" pos="VBN">
punto
</t>
<t g2p_method="" ph="null" pos=".">
.
</t>
</s>
</voice>
</p>
</maryxml>

The Italian and germ,an ones are different:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<maryxml xmlns="http://mary.dfki.de/2002/MaryXML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="0.5" xml:lang="it">
<p>
<s>
<t g2p_method="lexicon" ph="' p u1 n - t o" pos="S">
punto
</t>
<t pos="FS">
.
</t>
</s>
</p>
</maryxml>

The result is that all the English sentences end with the phones "n u l l"

Moreover the English LTS rules are not applied because of the syllabifier.