Re: Telona on the web at last

En réponse à Tristan McLeay :


>But I get the idea *others* do?
In fast speech yes, but only in fast speech.

>  How common is this practice?
Not very common where I come from. it's considered childish.

>  Does it
>apply to words ending in just a final [R], rather than a cluster?
Not, it has to be in a cluster. The important part, as I said, was that it
has to be a cluster that violates the Sonority Sequencing Principle (or
Sonority Hierarchy principle, as I've heard too). It's the same principle
that make Spanish people prefix e- to words they borrow that begin with
clusters like [st] or [sp].

>Garnier have recently stopped using American(-influenced) voices on
>their ads, (presumably) dubbing them with Australian. One change
>accompanying this is that they're no longer calling themselves
>\GARN-yay\ (/ga:n-jei/ or /gArn-jei/ or maybe it was even /-j&i/---I
>can't remember), using /ga:-nje:/ (\GAR-nyair\) instead. Is there any
>French reason why they should've been \Garnyay\ in the first place?
Apart from the fact that the name in French is pronounced [gaR"nje]? ;)))

The deletion we talked about only happens at the end of *words*, and only
when the final coda is a cluster beginning with a stop. It doesn't happen
in any other circumstances.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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