Re: Consonants and sonorant as vowels

Hello,

> > 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.
Don't think so. To the best of my knowledge, all Polish Cl/- groups
before anything but a vowel simplify to C. So "pletl/" [plet], jabl/ko
[japko], but bl/a,d [bwont].

> It won't count
> anyway, since l-stroke is rather a semivowel than a
> consonant; its normal SAMPA
> transcription would be [w].
Not really. Don't know the SAMPA, but a labiovelar sonorant. And even if
[w] is a labiovlear sonorant as well, still Polish l/ sounds definitely
different from [w].

Pavel
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