Re: average syllables per word?

In a message dated 6/30/99 9:58:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
fflores@ARNET.COM.AR writes:

<< My grammar says "one syllable per vowel". So it *is* a consonant cluster
 (v-p-r-ts-k-v-n, seven consonants, since /ts/ is affricate). And it also
 says "almost no assimilation"! Wow. >>

Nzva is getting like this.  i have added more and more "monosyllabic" words
that have many many consonants at their beginnings, such as "lnzvzo"-anything
used to occupy the mouth (cigarette, flute, pacifier, food, etc.).  this,
however, is a discrete unparsable unit.  words can be made out of it though,
such as lnzvzojayn-mouth occupying

pp
Joe Mondello