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Re: sabyuka : consonants, orthography, and a few things more

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, May 24, 2002, 7:11
En réponse à Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> > There are natlangs where shwa is stessed, e.g. Welsh _ysgol_ /'@sgOl/ > where /g/ is unaspirated voiceless plosive as opposed to /k/ which is > always aspirated and written {c}. >
I know that very well. Still, it doesn't change my gut feeling about the schwa. And you must admit that in a huge majority of cases and languages, the schwa can only be heard in unstressed sentences. Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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