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Guest Posted 21 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Syllable C0VG
When is a syllabe of the CoVG kind open and when closed?
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Hi Guest, Are you sure we have that syllable? I haven't come across it throught my studies, and I just looked it up in an online linguistic glossary in no avail. I guess G stands for "glide", what about O ?
- Hi Guest, Are you sure we have that syllable?
- I haven't come across it throught my studies, and I just looked it up in an online linguistic glossary in no avail.
- I guess G stands for "glide", what about O ?
- A syllable, as I remember, consists of either a consonant or a vowel!
- Please let me know if there in any changes in the theory,...?
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Hi Guest,
Are you sure we have that syllable? I haven't come across it throught my studies, and I just looked it up in an online linguistic glossary in no avail. I guess G stands for "glide", what about O ? A syllable, as I remember, consists of either a consonant or a vowel! Please let me know if there in any changes in the theory,...?
Cheers,
Are you sure we have that syllable? I haven't come across it throught my studies, and I just looked it up in an online linguistic glossary in no avail. I guess G stands for "glide", what about O ? A syllable, as I remember, consists of either a consonant or a vowel! Please let me know if there in any changes in the theory,...?
Cheers,
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0 Anyway, I suppose you meant "glide" by G, O doesn't matter in our case. As you know, glides sometimes behave as vowels, and sometimes as consonants, depending on their position. A glide after a vowel, as in your syllable, must be a consonant, since there can't be any two consecutive vowels in any human language. O also should be a consonant, so our syllable is CCVC . So, depending on which lan
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