Re: the Most Consonants in a row?
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 14, 2005, 18:57 |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:39:34 -0400, Kit La Touche
<kit@...> wrote:
> gvprckvnis, "he is peeling us", where the "c" is a [ts], counting as a
> single consonant in georgian, as it is an affricate. however, the [r]
> may
> be syllabic.
I'd argue that the |v|s could be syllabic too, if pushed. Doesn't stop
them being consonants, though -- although we're in territory where
"vocoid" might be a more useful term than "vowel".
Paul
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