Re: Two part verbs (Why They Shouldn't Make Me Wait)

Hi!

Christopher Bates <chris.maths_student@...> writes:
>...
> Not at the moment I'm afraid. I don't have a microphone or anything to
> make such recordings... and I'm not convinced my own pronunciation is
> perfect either. :P However, some natlangs are at least as bad (think
> Bella Coola etc) so I think it's feasable...
Sure, I think it is perfectly doable for a native speaker, I had no
doubt about that.  Much worse things exist.

> and since the transcription is, afterall, phonemic rather than
> phonetic I can possibly allow some kind of epenthesis if the
> clusters turn out to be too problematic. Since /@/ is a phoneme,
> though, the epenthetic vowel would have to be something else.
But IIRC, I have seen -/@tK)_>/ and -/tK)_>/ endings for the same
function, the former after an ejective.  Are those allomorphs with
exceptional /@/ or is it used epenthetically there?  When reading it,
I had classified that /@/ as an epenthetic vowel.  If you don't know
what I'm talking about, I will have to search (no time now, would have
to do it later).

**Henrik

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