Re: alien xeno-anthropologists (was: Abkhaz)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 5, 2004, 12:18 |
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 06:56:53 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> Philip Newton scripsit:
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> > What's 'svarabhakti'?
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> The same as 'epenthesis'; the addition of a vowel to ease the pronunciation
> of a difficult consonant cluster.
So what Mark said was essentially "|strength| can phonemicised as the
sequence of CV syllables /s# t# r# rE N# T#/, with "#" being the
savarabhakati vowel that is realised as [] (that is, zero) in speech,
yielding a phonetic representation of [str\ENkT]" ?
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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