Re: Case
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 19, 1999, 18:29 |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Are [j] and [i] allophones in Romanian? Even if so, I still think that
> _copiii_ is a weird looking word, it makes me think it should be a
> *really* long /i::/ :-)
"i" between vowels, or following a vowel at the end of a word (as in
_copii_ "children") becomes a semivowel. It doesn't matter whether
the full vowel preceding or following it is another /i/ or not.
Irina
Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay.
irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself)
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