Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >There's also a diacritic that turns e.g. fa -> pa, but IIRC it's not a
> >general fricative->stop converter (e.g. you can't use it to turn su into
> >tu).
>
> Indeed.
Not to mention, that it's ha -> pa, hi/pi, fu/pu, he/pe, ho/po.

> Not exactly. "kaa" *is* a single syllable in Japanese (in normal connected
> speech it sounds like [ka:], not [ka.a]). However, for most purposes (i.e.
> pitch-accent, singing, etc...), Japanese is mora-based rather than
> syllable-based.
Actually, for pitch-accent it's BOTH mora- and syllable-based.  The
"accent", i.e., the place at which the pitch falls, cannot occur on the
second mora of a syllable.

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