Re: Speedtalk. Again!

makeenan scripsit:

> I couldn't see how a collection of say, eight consonants could be
> pronounced. I guess the solution is called epinthetic vowels?
You could also use the Plan-B approach: assign each consonant a vowel
allophone, and use consonant and vowel allophones alternately.  Then every
possible phoneme sequence is pronounceable.  A side effect is that each
morpheme has two allomorphs depending on how many phonemes have preceded
it in the current utterance.

http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/langlab/plan_b.html

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