Re: THEORY: more questions

Carsten Becker scripsit:

> So if I get you right, sonorants are syllabic consonants.
No, a sonorant is either a vowel or a consonant that *can* be syllabic,
without regard to whether it actually is or not.  (Non-sonorant syllabic
consonants are possible, but rare except in metalinguistic applications,
like English [S:::] to make someone be quiet.)

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