Re: Group Conlang: affix morphology

At 11:01 13/10/98 -0300, you wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>>>About V-V compositions.  No body has objected this far about the proposed
>>>CSV(V)F syllabe structure where S is /w/, /j/ or /r/ and F is /w/, /j/, /l/
>>>any nasal or fricative.  It means a syllabe coud have two vowels, and if we
>>>join two roots, one ending in vowel and the other begining in vowel, they
>>>would become one syllabe from two original syllabes.
>>>
>>
>>Why S can't be also /l/ as I proposed? Can't you pronounce 'tl', 'fl' and
>>others?
>
>I see no reason why /l/ can't be there.
>I also see no reason why /r/ can't be syllable-final where /l/ can!
>
>What do we do then? I say let's have /l/ and /r/ in clusters, and also
>at syllable endings. What do you think?
>
>Also, what is /r/? I prefer a flap (Spanish, I know), or an English /r/
>(retroflex or not).
>
>
>--Pablo Flores
>
        I vote for the flap. I spent my all first year of Spanish class in
order to master this flap and now that I can produce it when I want, I want
to use it as much as possible (and I find more beautiful than the French or
English 'r's).

                                                Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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