Re: Circumfixes and syllabic consonants
| From: | Christopher Palmer <reid@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 1, 1998, 19:17 |
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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Peter Clark wrote:
> P.S. Once I decided that I wanted more syllabic consonants, I did a
> little fudging with the phonological rules, not to mention the
> romanization, which is why Enamin is now spelled Enamyn: the "y"
> preceeding a consonant (can) indicate a syllabic consonant. Thus,
> /En.am.n/.
What I'm more interested in is your syllabification -- a preference for
codas over onsets (counter to natlang universals)? Can you give us more
cool examples?
:)
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