Re: Unilang: the Phonotactics
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 20, 2001, 17:33 |
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In a message dated 4/20/01 10:11:22 AM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:
<< Scots _loch_ and German _Bach_ are normally pronounced by my fellow
countrymen with final /k/; and Van Gogh becomes /v&ngQf/. >>
An [f] at the end of Van Gogh?! Where the heck did that come from?
<<So what do we do to avoid assimilation? Put in an extra [p] as in _dreamt_
/drEmpt/? What about the sequence -mk- /mpk/ ???>>
I have no problem with this if the [m] is hummed before the [k] in an
onset position like in Swahili (though in Swahili it'd be an [N]), but I
don't think I've ever heard of an [mk] coming in a coda... Pumpkin's got
your [p] right in it, and, unless I hum the [m], I have to pronounce the [p].
But then, the [k] is in the onset. There is no word in English that ends
with [mk], right? Sally: "That guy's a humk!" Hmm...
-David
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