Timeline for Are Classical Tibetan "syllables" actually one syllable, like we think of English syllables?
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| Nov 23 at 2:14 | comment | added | Vegawatcher | While these syllables are certainly complex for an English speaker. Are they not simpler than Georgian გვფრცქვნი ([ɡ̊ʷpʰɾt͡sʰkʰʷni]) and მწვრთნელი (/mt͡sʼvrtʰneli/, [m̥t͡sʼʷ(ɾ)tʰne̞li]), for the pronunciation of which see the entries in Wiktionary. Worse yet, look at Nuxalk words like xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ in Wiktionary of Tashelhiyt Berber which allows " allows any segment, including voiceless stops, to be a syllable nucleus (jstor.org/stable/26351981) and includes words like [ntl] ‘hide!’, [tntltːnt] ‘you hid them (F )’ | |
| Nov 16 at 6:05 | comment | added | Arfrever | Slavic languages have at least these onset clusters of 2 plosives: /pt/, /db/, /tk/, /kp/, /gb/, /kt/, /gd/ (and many clusters also containing affricates or fricatives, e.g. /pt͡ʃ/, /pʃ/, /tt͡ʃ/, /tʃ/, /kʃ/, /t͡ʃp/, /t͡ʃt/, /t͡ʃk/ etc.). | |
| Nov 15 at 10:29 | comment | added | Tristan | Ancient Greek has onset clusters /bd/ /pt/ /pʰtʰ/ /kt/ & /kʰtʰ/ (not sure about /gd/, it doesn't seem to be attested word-initially at least) so onsets consisting of a sequence of two stops are hardly unprecedented (and at the opposite end of the syllable, English has /bd/ /pt/ /gd/ /kt/, which should seemingly be just as "physically impossible" as the onset clusters) | |
| Nov 15 at 7:43 | answer | added | curiousdannii♦ | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 15 at 5:53 | answer | added | John Frazer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 15 at 3:59 | comment | added | Lance Pollard | Trying not to ask how to pronounce words, which got immediately shut down in a harsh way. | |
| Nov 15 at 3:58 | comment | added | Lance Pollard | Me trying hard to pronounce these in one actual "syllable". | |
| Nov 15 at 3:57 | history | asked | Lance Pollard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |