Re: Rotokas (was: California Cheeseburger)

From:    "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>
> I don't think we have any evidence that Rotokas has ever been analyzed
> with so many syllables. Seeing the number '350' in a single *secondary*
> source is not a good data point when we can find in a primary source that
> Rotokas has 11 phonemes and that its syllable structure is only (C)V.
I'm jumping in here, and don't much of anything about Rotokas, but
how can it have a (C)V syllable structure when the name of the
language itself has a coda? Is there some constraint allowing word
final codas but not word internal ones?

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