Re: NATLANG: Phonotactics
| From: | Alex Fink <000024@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 2:44 |
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:27:58 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>/w/ in Esperanto is allowed as an onset. The name of the letter uxo
>is an example, as is uxato (the unit of power), and it shows up in
>other proper names.
But it's marginal in that position, as I recall, with few good examples
(proper names are hardly good examples), and native speakers tend to replace
it with /v-/ anyhow: thus _vato_ 'watt' is found alongside _uxato_
(http://www.reta-vortaro.de/revo/art/vat1.html), never mind the collosion
with _vato_ 'cotton wool'. No?
Alex
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