Re: OT: sorta OT: cases, please help...

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Muke Tever wrote:

> From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
> > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Christopher B Wright wrote:
> >
> > > Someone mentioned "student" being in the instrumental case. Polish can do
> > > what it wants to do as long as it doesn't do what English does, because
> > > then it would (likely) be worse. (I don't like my native language; it has
> > > something to do with that (C) (C) (C) (V) V (V) (C) (C) (C) syllabic
> > > style and 20+ vowels represented by five or six overlapping symbols,
> > > which caused me to limit my alphabets and syllabic styles considerably.)
> >
> > What word has VVV?
>
> queue /kjuw/.  (Some may have [kju:], but it's not /kju/ in the same
> sense that, say, you'd pronounce <quiu> in Spanish)
Aren't /j/ and /w/ consonants? (And I would've transcribed it as /kju:/;
after the /u/ is formed (which takes a bit long, admittedly, and goes
through a [1]-ish because of the [j]), there is no change. And I do know
you said that `some may have [kju:], I'm just saying what I have.)

Tristan

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