Re: Indication of non-syllabicity (WAS: Re: Celtica (WAS: Maggel))

Quoting Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>:

> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> > My preference is still for '('.  This is all just my opinion, of
> course.
>
> As a person who made certain contibutions to CXS earlier, I would vote
> for '(' too.
I, OT3H, don't like it - you'd have to scan the word to the end to see if there
where a closing parantesis. Not to mention the possibility of words like
[ai(ts)na - is that two syllables, with a coda affricate in the second one, or
three ones, with an optinal [ts] cluster in the middle?

                                                      Andreas

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