Re: Consonants and sonorants as vowels

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:37:57AM +0100, julien eychenne wrote:
[snip]
> Well, I was wondering about strange vowels we can find in some natural
> languages, such as sonorants (e.g. /r, l, m, n.../)  and above all
> consonants : I've heard of (african) languages which use sounds like /s,
> z/ as vowels. I was taught that sounds can become vocalic with respect
> to the sonority scale. I don't know if some natural languages use
> (voiceless)  plosives. Do some of you use such sounds? Which kind? I'm
> really interested in that point, and I'm sorry if it's already been
> asked.
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My L1, Hokkien, has syllabic M [m=]. I highly suspect my particular
dialect picked this up from the Cantonese [m=] ("no", "not"), since
Taiwanese Hokkien seems to use [bo] in its place. My dialect also has [bo]
in some cases, but has replaced other cases with [m=].


T

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