Re: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
>
>
> >Something must be lacking in my understanding of syllabic consonants - what
> is
> >the difference between [r\] and [r\=] (or any other asyllabic-syllabic
> pair)
> >in isolation? I thought syllabicity was defined in regard to surrounding
> >sounds?
>
> Oh, I never actually said that I pronounced them in isolation. I just
> didn't talk about the surrounding sounds because they are irrelevant to the
> discussion at hand.
Ah.

Do you by any chance of a microphone attached to your computer? If so, I'd
like to hear your monosyllabic pronunciation of 'vprtskvni' - I find it hard
to imagine how it would sound. Or if you have a soundfile with a native's
pronuncation, that would be even better, of course.

                                                         Andreas

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