Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

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