Re: Gzarondan vowels

Adrian Morgan sikyal:

> Gzarondan has the following vowels (in no particular order).
> Any comments?
>
> * Vowels marked with a star can be followed by [l] within the
>   vowel space of the conlang's syllable structure.
I don't understand this comment.  Are you saying that a sequence like [6l]
would all be considered a syllabic nucleus? What ramifications does this
have?

> Short:
> * [6]
> * [e] (allophone [{] after /g/, /k/, /j/, /x/)
>   [@]
> * [O]
>   [U]
> * [I]
> Long:
>   [6:]
>   [e_y:]
Do you mean for this last part to be rounded? Or did you mean [e_j]?

>   [o_w:]
>   [l=:]
>   [O:]
> * [8:]
>   [i:]
> Diphthongs:
>   [6I]
>   [e8]
>   [}u]
>   [i8]
Frightful, really.  I think the SAMPA makes it look worse than it is, but
it's still an odd collection of phones.  No [u]? As an analysis, I would
go with:

 Short          Long
  [6]           [6:]
  [e]           [e_j:]
  [@]
  [O]           [o_w:]
  [U]           [8:]
  [I]           [i:]
                [l=:]

This is intuitive; if you have some morphology, you might choose to
incorporate patterns like this (or completely unlike this, if you had
something else in mind.)

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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