Re: Georgian consonant clusters and syllables

Christophe Grandsire wrote at 2004-01-06 20:11:11 (+0100)
 > En réponse à Tim May :
 >
 > >I've heard a recording of someone saying vprtskvni, and it sounds
 > >to me as if - phonetically - the r is syllabic and there are
 > >epenthetic schwas after the [k] and both [v]s.  Or maybe there's a
 > >schwa before the r as well, I don't know.  I can't find this
 > >online any more, but I can mail you the .wav file if you like.
 >
 > Strange. I've heard myself a recording of a native Georgian
 > pronouncing it, and it was clearly a *single* syllable, with its
 > peak at the ending /i/.  There was no trace of epenthetic schwas or
 > syllabic r. Are you sure your recording is from a native speaker?

It's supposed to be.  I have no way of verifying that, of course, nor
how representative the pronunciation of that particular speaker might
be.  I've heard elsewhere that such epenthesis does occur in Georgian.

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