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Re: English syllable structure

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Friday, December 7, 2001, 5:22
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. ===================================================================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier> "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n / Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..." University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought / 1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn" Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers