Mark J. Reed wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:02:05PM +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
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>>>Ok. Is that really [r=], in other words, a lengthened trill,
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>>Actually, = *is* the X-SAMPA mark for "syllabic". A lengthened trill would
>>be written [r:]. [r=] is a syllabic alveolar trill of normal length.
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>Yes, sorry. "Syllabic" implies "lengthened" to me. An alveolar
>trill of normal length is too short to constitute a syllable. :)
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I'm not sure if that's true. I think the difference is subtler than that.