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Re: VCV syllables? (was: Different Words with Large Common Substrings)

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Thursday, November 6, 2008, 19:11
Clearly "syllable" is the wrong word for me to use.

The idea I had in might might better be expressed as a VCV Lego block for building words.

--gary


--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:


> > I've had a question for a while now and have just > gotten around to asking it; > > What's a VCV syllable? > > I'm accustomed to think of a syllable as beginning at a > sonority trough, running > through a sonority peak, and going on until the next > sonority trough. > > I'm also accustomed to thinking that all vowels are > more sonorous than any > consonants. > > So VCV looks like peak-trough-peak to me, and should have a > syllable > boundary just before the C (or maybe just after, though in > my conlangs it > would be just before). > > In other words I don't see how VCV could be > tautosyllabic. > > So, what do you mean by "VCV syllables"?