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