Re: ?Naro cel ei nau cepoa sia? ['naru,gil enQ,gibua'Za]

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@j...> wrote:
 > > >The table shows *all* legitimate clusters.  It doesn't include any
 > > >nasal-consonant clusters with different POAs.
 > >
 > > Okay. Then the generalization is that NC clusters within a
 > > phrase will share a place of articulation.
 >
 > Does this mean that, if within a phrase there is a word-combination like
 > |em tau|, those words break phrasal sandhi because their consonants are
 > unable to cluster?  Interesting.

Um, no...  |em tau| will sandhize into [intQ], which in turn is
a legal cluster.  Inside a word, you don't have any active
sandhi going on, so the cluster must be legal to begin with.
You couldn't have a single word like |emtau|.


-- Christian Thalmann

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