Re: Indication of non-syllabicity (WAS: Re: Celtica (WAS: Maggel))
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 18, 2004, 13:33 |
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 07:22:11AM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> 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?
? I wasn't aware of this use of parentheses to indicate "optional"
in CXS. Doesn't that also interfere with the ) for ties, then?
-Mark
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