Re: Restricted clusters?

In the last episode, (On Tuesday 03 July 2007 12:52:21), Jeff Rollin wrote:
>
> E.g. you could have the following words:
>
> kana (first syllable begins with consonant)
>
> kanan (word ends and begins with consonant)
>
> kanta (nb cluster!)
>
> kanda (prenasalised "t")
>
> kandya (prenasalised, palatalised "t")
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> nkanda (ng spelt "nk" at the beginning of words)
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> kaua (second syllable consists solely of vowel "a")
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> kat' (palatalised consonants at end of word spelt with ')
>
> but not:
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> *ana  }
> 		(first syllable begins with vowel)
> *anan }
>
> *karnta (three-consonant cluster)
>
> *karndya (consonant clusters with prenasalised consonants disallowed)
>
> *nkruma (consonant cluster at the beginning of a word)
>
> *kalt (consonant cluster at the end of a word)
>
Oh, and:

kasta / katsa /kastwa /katsya

but not:

kandza / kandsa

and fairly obviously not:

kaznda / kasnda

Jeff
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