Re: Vowels?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 25, 2002, 23:42 |
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En réponse à Bob Greenwade <bob.greenwade@...>:
> As a general rule, the only consonants that should be allowed as
> vowels
> are the trills and approximants (r, l, and their relatives). If she
> can
> figure out how to treat a fricative, nasal, or even plosive consonant as
> a
> vowel and make it sound natural (even though I'd say the latter was
> impossible), then more power to her.
>
Well, your general rule doesn't completely hold, since among languages which
use syllabic consonants, the most used ones happen to be the nasals (50% of
those languages only have nasals as sylabic consonants). They are more often
used as syllable peaks than the trills and approximants together!!! :)
Christophe.
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