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

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"?