Re: Tong-cho-la
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 21, 2003, 13:37 |
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>In hindsight this scheme is probably too complicated, and there should
>have been only one such vowel, which can be inserted wherever desired.
New Guniea Tok Pisin does/did something similar.
E.g. if an speaker were to have trouble pronouncing the /str/ cluster in "Em
i strong", the word could be pronounced [s@"trON], [s1"trON] or even
[se"trON] where [@], [1] and [e] are all ultra short.
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