Re: Igassik Morphophonology

jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...> writes:

> > To my knowledge, Georgian allows a lot: [vprtskvni].
>
> Gaaakk!!!  Please tell me that the [r] there is syllabic, or else I don't
> see how anyone pronounces it.
:-)

I suppose `syllables' are something not so easy to define then.
Listening to people from Georgia, I decided that the two v, the r and
the i make syllables.  So I counted four, thinking the second was
stressed: v-'prts-kv-ni.

But I don't know whether that's accepted theory.  It was what I heard
and how I could pronounce the word so that people said: `Yes,
right.'. :-)

**Henrik