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Re: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, January 16, 2004, 22:12
Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> Still, to me approximants are about the easiest sounds to make syllabic to > me, and I can't hear a length difference between [r\] and [r\=] when I > pronounce them. Of course, the longer you maintain an approximant, the more > likely it is gonna become syllabic, but length is not *necessary* for > syllabicity.
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? Andreas

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