Re: Syllabic consonants (was: Re: Beek)

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:47:57PM -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
> /r/* is *not* syllabic and never will be.  The */m/*, on the
> other hand, *is* syllabic but won't be if you follow it up with a vowel.
> The answer to your original question is  that the /r/ in <karm>
> will never be syllabic.
Ah!  Well, then, that clears everything up. :)

Although it still feels a bit odd; I naturally break [karm=] up as
[ka.rm=] rather than [kar.m=].

> Please accept my apologies for the massive amount of confusion I have sown.
Nothing to apologize for; 'twas a simple typo.  At least you
weren't posting in Maggel; THAT would be confusing.

:)

-Mark