Re: Consonants and sonorant as vowels
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 4, 2002, 6:59 |
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--- tim talpas wrote:
> # > While I can't confirm it, it seems to me that whatever works in
> # > Czech also works in Slavic, and usually in Polish.
> #
> # Not in this case. Serbo-Croatin has syllabic sonorants, and IIRC
> # Slovenian and Slovak (may be wrong tho'). All other Slavic language lack
> # this.
> #
> ex. jablka "apple" NOM SG., jabl'k (l-acute, long /l/) "apples" GEN. PL.
Polish has "jablko" (where l = l-stroke), but it is usually pronounced [japko].
Maybe in some cases like [jabuko], I'm not sure about that. It won't count
anyway, since l-stroke is rather a semivowel than a consonant; its normal SAMPA
transcription would be [w].
Jan
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