Re: alien xeno-anthropologists (was: Abkhaz)

Philip Newton said:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 06:56:53 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
> wrote:
>> Philip Newton scripsit:
>>
>> > What's 'svarabhakti'?
>>
>> 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]" ?

Yep, that's what I said. Just remember that I supposed to be talking to
gullible alien xeno-anthropologists at the time.


-- Mark