Re: Japanese Long Consonants

Chris Bates wrote:


> Okay. At the moment.... the structure of each syllable is:
>
> (C)V(C)
>
> So a word is like:
>
> (C)V(C)(C)V(C).....
>
> Sorry... I'm not sure how to write it, but I was using brackets to show
> that something is optional.
The parens are correct.

The
> consonants that can occur in coda position are limited though: mostly
> fricatives, nasals, l, r and (under the current system) the glottal
> stop. I'm not sure how realistic it is allow a glottal stop as a coda
> consonant but not any other stops, especially since the glottal stop
> can't occur as an initial consonant (it's always coda)....
Quite reasonable and realistic IMO. The Indo. langs. I worked with allow
only nasal and /?/ as codas. (But a word like **du?en is not possible, I
assume.)  Medial clusters of ?+C could arise from earlier C1+C2, which is
indeed one of the sources of the clusters in Bugis/Makassarese et al.

(snip remaining details-- very well done, and entirely possible)