Re: Hiatus within words

From: "Roger Mills"

> Presumably in the case of haïr, the dieresis is used to prevent misreading
> as "hair" /(h)ER/-- is there such a word? Or ?"hère".
"Hère" is a word. "Pauvre hère" = "Poor wretch."

> Is it hiatus or
> diphthong in cases like _nouille_ or the final syllable of _fauteuil_ (one
> of my favorite Fr. words, which I can barely pronounce) ??  Contrast
_nuit:
> nouille_ or _huit : oui_.....?
I, a non-native, would say these are all diphthongs. Hiatus occurs in words
like "yaourt" (/ja.urt/) (don't remember how to render the French "r" in
Kirshenbaum), or "il y a eu" (/ilja.y/)(or just /(i)jja.y/), or "tohu bohu"
(/to.ybo.y/). Can hiatus also refer to the same vowel sound repeated as in
"à assister" or "a assisté" (/a.asiste/)?

ObConlang: Géarthnuns also has this, as in:

öü /Y.y/
oü /o.y/
a-u /a.u/
eu /E.u/
Sob lé í kadiz /sYble.ikadIz/

and if the answer to my question is 'yes', then also stuff like:

cha abens /tSa.abE~s/

Kou