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Re: Initial clusters, was: Re: Russian orthography

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 1, 2000, 14:58
At 09:14 01/02/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >What a pity! And I've just remembered another amusing example: > >trwaæ (trwac) 'to continue': t + r_0 (devoiced /r/) + f >
This one's easier for me. Is the /r/ trilled or flapped? The /t/ and /f/ help me devoice the /r/, and a sequence stop-liquid-fricative is not that difficult. It's all those sequences with 4 stops in a row and a few fricatives that make me mad :) . Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. "Reality is just another point of view." homepage : http://rainbow.conlang.org