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Re: Phonological Relay Proposal

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Monday, September 11, 2000, 3:50
>"H. S. Teoh" wrote: >> be'K in let jun, ai' hed 3 briif K0'v33sech3n yth bee'ri gaasi'a 3baut >> th3 aidi3' 0f 3 fon0l0'jik3l rilee'.>
Kash: 'pekin 'lecun, a'yata prifi kamba'seshan wis 'peri ka'siya_'pawut siayi'tiyafa fono'lacika_'rile.... This would actually sound more like Engl. that appears-- Post-tonic plain stops are somewhat emphatic, almost geminated, so /'lecun/ almost = ['letcun]; graphies "ayi" and "awu"are almost diphthongs; /p t c k/ can be voiceless unaspirated or semi-voiced. The a's of ...Garcia_about... elide, as do the difficult ...l r... of the last two words. But there's no way around that Engl. final /f/. Some speakers might hear the Engl. voiced stops as Kash prenasalized stops, and produce: a'mbekin 'lecun, a'yanda'mbrifi kamba'seshambis a'mberi'ngasiya'mbawut siayi'ndiyafa fono'lanjika_'rile. Mmm, ruwini kundak leñ ... doesn't flow very good. Both speakers would have an almost irresistible inclination to run the first two words together, Kash-style, and say "...( )ekindecun..." Having checked the dictionary, I can say that this is all total Kash gibberish.