Re: Georgian consonant clusters and syllables

Tim May <butsuri@...>
> 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.
In my experience, phonetically epenthesized schwas are restricted
only to stop-stop clusters.  If you accept the /r/ being syllabic,
then that word has two syllables:  [fpr=ts] and [k_wni].  (/v/ has
a number of phonetic realizations, including [f], [B] and labializing
the preceding consonant.)

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