Re: Sketch: Tatari Faran
From: | Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 0:39 |
--- "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> skrev:
> Well, the only allowed clusters are nasal +
> non-nasal (did I fail to
> mention this somewhere?) so I think /ts/ would be
> OK.
My bad. I didn't catch that part in your sketch.
> Nope, the initial /r/ is pronounced [d] every time
> it's word-initial.
> I'm considering whether I should just write every as
> /d/, tho it'd
> sure come out strange to my eyes. :-)
What, you mean writing (another made-up example)
[saira] as /saida/? Doesn't seem so weird, especially
to me and my dialect of American English, which tends
to pronounce medial /d/ as [4] in many environments
anyways. Seems like a good idea, at least.