Re: verbs?

Ian Spackman sikyal:

> At 23:33 17/07/03, Thomas Wierwrote:
> >Quoting JS Bangs <jaspax@...>:
> >
> >[writing of weird languages:]
> > > E.g. Georgian's consonant clusters, those three
> > > OSV languages, Berber's syllabic stops, the "monster raving loony
> > > language", etc.
> >
> >Although it should be mentioned that these Berber syllabic stops
> >are only phonologically, not phonetically, syllabic.  (Whatever it
> >might mean to be phonetically syllabic.) There is an audible, but
> >very short, schwa in words with them.
>
> Oh, how disappointing.
Indeed. Do you have or know of a recording, Thomas? I would like to hear
it from myself.

I had heard from a different source that the phonetic correlate was
length, but tiny epenthetic schwas is more likely.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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