yscreus il Th. Wier:
>No, I do have [w_0]. Don't get me wrong: I'm not condemning your >usage,
I don't understand you to be so doing!
>All sounds can be arranged along a "sonority hierarchy" according to
Thanks for the explanation. A little gem for conlang tweaking!
>In English, onset clusters need to be at least two spaces distant >from the
>first of the cluster to the second, such that [kr] and [ny] >are licit onset
>clusters, but *[pt], *[pn] and *[nl] are not. In the >case of [wr], there is
>no distance at all (although historically <r> was >a trill), which is why I'm
>surprised that you would have it.
>The other structure that you mention, [w_0], is only the voiceless >version of [w].
I don't mean a vl. [w]. At least, I'm quite sure I don 't. How do you pronounce
it? My [hw] is like my [kw] except that there is an [h] in stead of a [k]. I
hope that makes some sense.
Padraic.