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Re: Japanese Long Consonants

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Saturday, November 6, 2004, 4:06
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From: "Simon Richard Clarkstone" <s.r.clarkstone@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: November 5, 2004 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: Japanese Long Consonants


> Chris Bates wrote: > > THat's what I was thinking, but to be honest I'm not sure I want to do > > long vowels + glottal stops. My brain keeps trying to cut them off > > early and make them short. > > That, of course provides a nice method for introducing realistic-seeming > apparently-historical irregularities into your language. Or, you could > have a 3-way system (to what use, I don't know): > * long vowel > * short vowel > * short vowel + glottal stop > > -- > Simon Richard Clarkstone > s.r.cl*rkst*n*@durham.ac.uk / s*m*n_cl*rkst*n*@hotmail.com >