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Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 25, 2001, 2:59
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Barry Garcia wrote:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes: > >Syllable structure will probably end up looking a lot like that of > >Japanese, but I am way too fond of the [St] (e.g. "stark"), [Sp] (e.g. > >"Spiel"), [Sv] (e.g. "schwarz"), etc. consonant clusters that I'm > >thinking of preserving them. So "schwarz" -> (maybe) svarutsu, where "s" > >orthographically before another consonant is understood to be [S], and > >[s] otherwise; and [S] otherwise is "sz". > > In Japanese, doesnt u (depending where it is, i havent studied it, but can > think of examples), and usually i (at least after /S/) tend to be very > very faintly pronounced anyway?
No, that's right (at least from listening to subbed anime and reading descriptions).
> I have a professor whose wife is Japanese, and her name is Yoshiko. But, > he always pronounces (and she seems to too), as /joSko/. So, wouldnt it > not be unreasonable for Yoon to keep the /St/ she likes?\
Thank you. :-) I had forgotten about that fact. I feel better about the consonant clusters already. YHL