Re: Another Glossotechnia playtesting report
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 18:35 |
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* Jim Henry said on 2008-03-18 22:56:54 +0100
> Also: what would I call a card that causes
> a certain phoneme to disappear entirely in
> certain contexts, not being replaced by another
> phoneme? E.g., unstressed /e/ disappears
> wherever a permitted consonant cluster
> would result,
This (with a vowel) is "syncope", one of the reasons
"Featherstonehough" is pronounced "Fanshaw" and "Leicester" is
pronounced "Lester".
"Apocope" is common and active in the dialect where I live:
dropping the unstressed final vowel of a word.
t., back from easter holidays, with a cold as a souvenir
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