Re: USAGE: Name clitics (was Re: USAGE: What gender is _Wikipedia_ in German?)

On 8/4/06, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
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> In my experimental speedtalk-type language X-3, all proper names begin and
> end with a glottal stop, which doesn't occur elsewhere in the language.
> So if you see a glottal stop, everything that follows is a proper name until
> you hit upon another glottal stop, beyond which everything are ordinary
> morphemes again.  Proper names are the only class of morphemes in X-3 that are
> more than one phoneme long.
Jörg, how do you avoid glottal stops being "swallowed" by adjacent
consonants in ordinary morphemes? E.g.:

tos ?ana? ki

Wouldn't that sound exactly like:

tos ana ki

?

--larry