Re: Beek
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 15, 2003, 16:21 |
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:47:12AM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> it, the word <karm>, 'shield" is pronounced in two syllables. (The word
> should properly be written with an accent over the <a> to indicate stress
> on the first syllable.) As a matter of fact, the /m/ is syllabic here
> because liquid plus nasal clusters in the syllable coda are illegal, to the
> illegal cluster is broken up by making the m syllabic.
So the /r/ is not syllabic here? Is it ever?
> there is the minimal pair <mta> and <mta>,
> one of them stressed on the syllabic /m/ the other stressed on the
> <ai>.
Did you mean <a>, or is there an <i> I don't see up there?
-Mark
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