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Re: Circumfixes and syllabic consonants

From:fortytwo <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, November 5, 1998, 23:32
Who? wrote:
> Also, syllabic consonants: how frequent are they? Have you > ever used them? By "syllabic consonants" I mean consonant > sounds that can be treated as vowels, i. e. they can form a > syllable, and be stressed. I know at least Chinese has a syllabic > "r". My new conlang is having lots of syllabic consonants; in > fact, voiced fricatives can all be syllabic.
*English* (at least some dialects) also has syllabic 'r' and 'l', as well as nasals. _Her_, for example, is /hr,/ (/,/ = syllabic diacritic). _Little_ also has syllabic /l,/.