Re: USAGE: Schwa and syllabification

Mark J. Reed wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:30:06PM +0000, Joe wrote:
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>>[k=] is impossible, yes, but what about [g=].  I can pronounce that with
>>no difficulty whatsoever.
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>Hm.  [g=]?  I am quite skeptical.  [g:], sure, although it
>amounts to a long silence in the middle.  [G=], [N=], [R\=], [M\=],
>all quite possible, but [g=] doesn't make any sense.
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>

To be 100% accurate, it's actually [g_}=].  If it's not syllabic, I
don't know what it is.