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

From:Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...>
Date:Sunday, December 10, 2006, 8:11
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:39:11 +0000, Christopher Bates
<chris.maths_student@...> wrote:

>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... 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.
Not necessarily; Chukchi can be analysed to have both epenthetic and underlyingly present [@]. So for instance there are nouns /mem@l/ [mem@l] 'seal' and /miml/ [mim@l] 'water'. They can be told apart because they select different allomorphs of the plural: /mem@lte/ [mem@lte] gets the allomorph /-ti/ that follows VC[CORONAL], while /mimlt/ [miml@t] gets the elsewhere variant /-t/. (This from http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~spena/Chukchee/chapter2.html .) In fact I'd be a little surprised if there were a [@] and it wasn't the regular epenthetic vowel. This is one thing that's always struck me as a little unfortunate about Lojban, that /@/ is taken and so the epenthetic vowel has to be something else. Alex