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Re: Restricted clusters?

From:Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 3, 2007, 12:00
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") > > nkanda (ng spelt "nk" at the beginning of words) > > kaua (second syllable consists solely of vowel "a") > > kat' (palatalised consonants at end of word spelt with ') > > but not: > > *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 -- "Please understand that there are small European principalities devoted to debating Tcl vs. Perl as a tourist attraction." -- Cameron Laird