Re: THEORY Ideal system of writing

Dirk Elzinga scripsit:

> It's going to be messy wherever you choose to deal with it :-).
Yes, a language with a syllable like [strENTs] is not a good
candidate for syllabic representation.

> In a paper which appeared in the journal _Phonology_ in 1995, Mike
> Hammond and Stuart Davis argue that when /j/ occurs in CGV sequences (G
> = glide) it is part of the syllable nucleus, while /w/ in the same
> position is part of the onset.
Of course, the real story is that [ju] is still /y/ underlyingly.

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