Peter Bleackley wrote:
> Syllable structure
>
> [O]V[C]
>
> Where O is an onset consonant and C is a coda consonant. Codas are about
> twice as common as onsets.
>
IIRC that's a big violation of Optimality Theory, not that it matters.....
Still, mightn't there be a tendency to reanalyze a word like up.a > u.pa??
Why not post a sampling of your forms to the List??
> Onset Consonants
>
> Possible onset consonants consist of the nasals
> m n ng
> [m] [n] [N]
> and the approximants
> w r l y ll
> [w] [4] [l] [j] [5]
>
> Vowels
>
> Vowels are
> i a u
> [i] [&] [u]
> Where two vowels occur adjacently within a word, they must be different.
>
> Codas
> Coda consonants be any of the following stops
> p b t d c gc k g q qh
> [p] [b] [t] [d] [c] [J\] [k] [g] [q]
[G\]
> '
> [?]
>
> Or any of the fricatives
> ph bh þ ð sh j lh x gh h
> [p\] [b\] [T] [D] [S] [Z] [K] [x] [G]
[h]
>
> I've got an auto generated list of 2000 works created using this
phonology,
> which I'll send off-list to anyone who wants to see it.
>
> Pete