Re: Case
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 18, 1999, 23:48 |
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Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
> Try pronouncing the one in the middle as /j/. It's a straightforward
> word of three syllables then, [kop'iji].
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::/ :-)
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