Re: Extra Syllabic Consonants

>From: Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
>Subject: Re: Extra Syllabic Consonants
>Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:41:34 -0400
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>R A Brown wrote:
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>>The comment on obstruents is also interesting. Indeed Pike's definition of
>>vocoids would seem to exclude fricatives. But AFAIK voiced fricatives can
>>and do act as syllabic nuclei in some languages so, presumably, should be
>>classed as vocoids. But cannot voiceless fricatives also act as syllabic
>>nuclei? The nucleus of the exclamation 'pst!' is surely [s]. IIRC it has
>>been posited that Etruscan allowed /s/ and /f/ to serve as syllabic nuclei
>>- but of course we have no way of checking (without time travel). Are
>>there examples in actual spoken languages (besides, of course,
>>interjections like 'pst')?
my science teacher told us that the vowels were "a,e,i,o,u; sometimes y; and
rare-er than y, m.