Re: Consonants and sonorant as vowels
| From: | tim talpas <tim@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 3, 2002, 0:43 |
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#
# Hello,
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# > While I can't confirm it, it seems to me that
# > whatever works in
# > Czech also works in Slavic, and usually in Polish.
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# Not in this case. Serbo-Croatin has syllabic sonorants, and IIRC
# Slovenian and Slovak (may be wrong tho'). All other Slavic language lack
# this.
#
Slovak definitely has lots of syllabic /r/ and /l/, which can be long or
short. Short [r] is usually a single tap, as in the words
krk "neck", skrz "through", and my favorite: stvrtvrstva "quarter layer"
... long /r/ is heavily trilled...
i don't think there are many words with an underlying long /l/ or /r/,
they usually come from morphophonetic processes... like the feminine and
neuter genitive plurals of some nouns..
ex. jablka "apple" NOM SG., jabl'k (l-acute, long /l/) "apples" GEN. PL.
-tim
http://www.zece.com/conlang/
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