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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, June 6, 2003, 17:48
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:00:09PM +0200, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> This is the ASCII documentation from the soucre code. I should > say that a character is composed from two parts: left the semantical > part, which is not handled here, and right the pronunciation part, > which is described below. Each syllable has the following structure:
It appears from your description that each glyph represents *two* syllables, yes?j
> The middle C-cluster can only be /nt/, /ts/, /Nk/ and /kx/.
Why can /x/ not appear by itself in the middle?
> The palatalisation of the first syllable is marked with a dot in the > right uppermost square, I think.
What about palatalization of the second syllable? (As in "Tyl Sjok", if it's written as a single glyph, but perhaps it's not because it's two words?) -Mark

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