Re: Introducing Bakoyu
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 18, 2002, 18:18 |
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En réponse à Heather Rice <florarroz@...>:
>
> Between k and pigl, yes. Phonetically, there should
> be a short e or i between the two, but k is the past
> tense marker and there isn't supposed to be any other
> vowel. Somehow, when I say "pigl" the l is almost a
> vowel.
>
You're pronouncing a syllabic l /l=/. "l", like many continuants, can be used
as a syllable peak (that's to say as a vowel) quite easily, and indeed quite a
few languages treat it like a vowel. Some dialects of English have often
syllabic /l=/ or /n=/ at the end of words like "settle" or "passion". The
difference between /@l/ and /l=/ being that in the first case you have two
distinguishable sounds, but only one in the second case.
Christophe.
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