Re: Question about Coda Restrictions

John Vertical wrote:
> Reminds me of a thing I read of Ainu - /p t k r/ all reducing to [x] in coda
> (no onset /x/, however). Wait, except that's not really the same thing at
> all. Nevermind...
Nice. That Ainu has [S] in codas (from /s/) is also nice, considering that my
conlang uses /S/ instead of /s/ in codas.


> >/b d g ?/
> >/s S x/ (I have thought about replacing /s/ with /T/)
> >(sonorants)
>
> That looks decidedly odd, but I don't believe this comes as news to you :)
You mean /T/ without /s/? Well, my inventories become more personalized for
each day :) Though I'm not sure if I should do that. /T/ is too rare to play
with the others, I think. It would defeat my purpose to have a small vanilla
phonology.

Or do you mean having /b d g ?/ and no /p t k/? It's just a matter of
transcription, since they are realized as [b d g] most of the time anyway.
And I think it is more intuitive for Anglophones and Swedes, since they would
otherwise probably pronounce the words with aspiration.

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Veoler