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.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.