Re: verbs?
| From: | Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 17, 2003, 23:11 |
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At 23:33 17/07/03, Thomas Wierwrote:
>Quoting JS Bangs <jaspax@...>:
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>[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.
Some 15 years ago now I heard a rumour from two different sources that
there's a language (maybe in British Columbia, or maybe that's a trick of
the memory) in which [a] and [t] appear as allophones (though I think both
rumours may be traceable to McGill and so not independent). Anyone happen
to know if this is true?
Ian
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