Re: OT: Intergermansk - Traveller's Phrasebook
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 6, 2005, 2:10 |
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:42:45PM -0800, Gary Shannon wrote:
> As to whether "y" in that context is a vowel or a
> consonant, the choice seem pretty arbitrary to my
> untrained ear. I classify the sound as a vowel. If
> that does not agree with convention then so be it.
> I'm not an expert, and that classification works for
> me. I do pronounce "R" quite distinctly, not in the
> East Coast, or Bostonian style at all.
It's not a vowel because it does not constitute a syllable nucleus.
The word "year" has only one syllable. The particular type of
quasi-vowel consonant sound represented by "y" in the word "year" is called a
"glide"; /w/ is another one.
-Marcos
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