Re: Name of my conlang

On 22 May 02, at 8:06, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:52:51AM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> > > But the "proper" pronunciation, at least as far as a native speaker
> > > is concerned, is [&bisV:'di@n]. (The stress on the 3rd syllable is
> > > from the original word, _3bis33'di_. Pity I can't send email in
> > > LaTeX; the ASCII orthography is looking uglier by the minute :-P )
> >
> > If it's stressed on the third syllable, do you mean [&bi"sV:di@n]? The
> > stress mark in both X-SAMPA and Kirshenbaum ASCII IPA comes *before*
> > the stressed syllable.
>
> You're right. I haven't used SAMPA / Kirsch for a while now, and I seem to
> be mixing them up with my orthography :-P That pronunciation isn't really
> "official", though, since "Ebisedian" has no corresponding word in the
> language itself. I was just extrapolating from the native word _3bis33'di_
> which stresses the third syllable.
I'm still confused. If the "di" in "3bis33di" is stressed (since that's
the syllable that has the stress marker before it), how do you make it
the third syllable? I presume |3| is a vowel, which makes me presume
that word has at least four syllables (vowel nucleus plus zero or more
consonants), with nuclei 3-i-33-i. I can't see how any of those can be
together in the same syllable since those groups are separated by
consonants.

Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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