Re: Clarifying phonotactics
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 9, 2006, 3:06 |
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<<
but they're not very well explained I think. They're confusing
people, at any rate. Would anyone be willing to look and see what I
can do to clarify them, and make them easier to understand?
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A couple comments:
-Since you use the orthography in your section on phonotactics
and mutation, you might put the orthography section before these
sections (I went hunting around for what the grapheme "Y" stood
for for a little bit).
-The class of sonorants includes nasals and vowels (this is in the
orthography section). To categorize the liquids and glides, you
might use the term "approximants".
-You say "Geminate consonants are limited to continuants".
Voiced nasals are specified as [-continuant], as are laterals (though
the latter, not without some controversy). I can't think of a term
that would group liquids, voiced nasals and fricatives...
-You might group the onset consonant clusters with the rest of
the consonant clusters. Just a maybe.
Other than that, everything seems to be there. Under duress,
I believe I could explain Taalen phonotactics after reading your
page. ~:D
-David
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