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Re: syllable-word nonalignment

From:Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
Date:Sunday, December 14, 2008, 15:27
rDzongkha does something similar, IIRC. But it went a different way in that
the consonant clusters simplified, so instead of having CVC.CVC, you have
CV.CV.
See Wikipedia! It can explain so much better than I can.

Eugene

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Alex Fink <000024@...> wrote:

> I had a morphophonological idea while walking to campus the other day. One > might have a language with, say, maximal CVC syllable structure, but in > which typical words are composed of CCV units, which are syllabified by > transferring the initial C of each word into the syllable of the final V of > the last word: so /ba tgude mdaska lti/ [bat .gu.dem .das.kal .ti] or > whatever. > Maybe syllable boundaries by themselves aren't detectable enough to make > this interesting: so you might have some ramification of the syllable > types, > like weight-dependent stress, that is ordered following this C shunting; or > you might have VC pairs that react when they come in contact in a syllable; > or you might have occasional word-final Cs that, when they get a C shunted > onto them by a preceding word, invoke syllable-internal cluster resolution > rules yielding sandhi-type outcomes, which sandhi would fail to happen > across heterosyllabic junctures. > > Is there ANADEW for this, or anything like it? Anyone done something like > this in a conlang? > For that matter, is there some theory that says that this sort of thing > shouldn't ever happen? (I don't know what consequences the phonological > word has in practice, but I could well imagine that it might not find this > copacetic.) > > Alex >