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Re: Consonants and sonorants as vowels

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 2, 2002, 13:18
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:37:57AM +0100, julien eychenne wrote:
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> 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.
[snip] 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 -- 2+2=4. 2*2=4. 2^2=4. Therefore, +, *, and ^ are the same operation.