Re: Rotokas (was: California Cheeseburger)

Thomas R. Wier said:
> 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?

I must have been mistaken about Rotokas being (C)V.

Clearly, those who don't know much of anything about Rotokas are in the
majority here, so I'm outvoted hands-down.


-- Mark

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