Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:47:11 +0000 Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
writes:
> >I'd analyze that as [maj.ja] with a geminate /j/, which would
> >strongly suggest it's a consonant, right?
> I doesn't sound geminate to me ... but I'm not having a spectrograph
> at hand to make checks.
>                                                Andreas
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Maybe it's 'ambisyllabic', or whatever the |pp| in English "happy" is
called.


-Stephen (Steg)
"i see wry beauty in guile.
  represent, like, our vapid mind
  and lapse only on clever nefarious woman."
     ~ refrigerator-magnet poem

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