Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Saturday, September 29, 2001, 20:16
In a message dated 9/29/01 11:38:53 AM, trwier@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:

<< It's also easy to understand why: [nukli:r=]

has that hiatus between [i:] and [r=] which most languages, English

included, seem to hate >>

    I find my way around by not pronouncing the "clear" in "nuclear" like the
word "clear", but, rather, like this [klijr=], so the glide becomes the onset.

-David

Reply

Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>