Re: CHAT: Synesthesia and conlanging (was Re: The ConlangInstinct)
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Friday, December 10, 1999, 19:06 |
"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:
>
> Funny, you forgot the [l] in the pronunciation (it is not silent)
It's not? I thougth I read that it was!
> It also tends to add meaningless syllables
> at the end of short sentences, like "C,a va-t'y ?" [sava'ti] for "C,a va
> ?": how are you? are you OK? ('C,'is c-cedilla).
Yeah, I've red about that, the way that the [ti] added to forms like
[vjE~ti] has been reanalyzed as a question suffix in some dialects.
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