Re: Japanese voicing, and learning Mandarin and Portuguese (was Re: Keyboards)

Roger Mills wrote:

>Was there ever, or is there now, any constraint in Japanese on lexemes with
>consecutive syllables with vd. C ? e.g. /baga/, /guda/ etc? If so, that
>might help explain it (though not cases of _V-vl-V-vd...).
>
>
If I'm not mistaken, I've heard of a constraint like this, though it may
have been one voiced C per, uh, word.

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