Re: English syllable structure
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 5:22 |
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Quoting Fabian <fabian@...>:
> From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
> > > 'chiaroscuro'
> >
> > Never encountered that word, but I'd say /kia/.
>
> It's a technical term in art criticism, and therefore
> normally pronounced as in Italian: /kja.../
>
> Most Italians round here (we have a big Italian community in town)
> would say /tSa.../. In the Italian dialect that dominates here, orthographic
> I turns /k/ to /tS/ and /g/ to /dZ/. Palatisation, I do believe.
No doubt. But I was talking about Standard Italian.
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