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Re: C: if not 'ch'...



> > Yes, but then you're leaving the door open for the
> > use of any combination of oclusive+sibilant (ts, tx,
> > dz, dj, ps, bz, ks, gz, kx, gj...), because if you
> > allow for tx, why not allowing also for ts (necessary
> > for slavic roots), ps and ks (greek), kx and gj
> > (sanskrit), etc...?
> 
> Sure.  Anything that is considered pronounceable by consensus is 
allowed.
> And schwa-buffering will be available for those who find the 
combinations
> difficult.

That's sure going to be a tough task!! We Spanish
speakers, for example, consider all the clusters of the
kind sibilant+consonant to be "unpronounceable". Georgian
speakers, for their part, would say that they don't find
anythin "unpronounceable" at all in such clusters as bg-,
tkv-, zgv-, mtv-, mkvl-, mrgv-, mtsvrtn-, gvprtskvn-...
which are in common use in their language. And, once one
gets used to the prosody of the language, it's not that
difficult to say them, really --I checked that myself: of
course at first I thought they were impossible, but then
I had the opportunity of listening to a Georgian news
broadcast for about half an hour; I didn't understand a
word, but after that I tried to pronounce those clusters
and I found that using that prosody I'd just been
carefully listening to I could do it without effort;
what's more, I was in fact EAGER to pronounce those long
consonant clusters, almost as if that prosody that had
just sticked into my head were urging me to put as many
consonants together as I could. Something similar can
be said of English consonant sequences, which using
Spanish prosody many of them (chaNGeD To, diDN'T Do,
waS STiCKeD To, STReNGTHS ...) seem unpronounceable. I
can't say them if I use the prosody of my native tongue,
but I find no difficulty when using English prosody
instead.

Best regards,
Javier