Re: New Conlang: Terkunan

On 3/2/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> The pronunciation of the phones today is just like in
> Classical Latin again, only length is now non-phonemically selected by
> openness of the syllable:
>
>     /e:/          [e:]
>     /e/           [E]
Is |es| an exception to this, or do I misunderstand the concept of
"open" and "closed" syllables?

I thought that a closed syllable was one where the vowel was followed
by a(t least one) consonant that belongs to the same syllable, so I
would've expected [Es] for |es| (even though there's no consonant
before the nucleus).

However, your text has

>    Mis patre, k'es n'kels,            [mIs 'patre 'kes N=kEls]
with [e] between two consonants and

>    Es bendika tu nombre.              ['es bEn'dika tu 'nOmbre]
with [e] before a (presumably) syllable-final consonant.

Exception due to high-frequency word? Or slip of the finger?

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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