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Re: Hiatus within words

From:DOUGLAS KOLLER <laokou@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 1, 2000, 2:04
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