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on 3/3/02 9:47 AM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:59:05AM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> Now, do we want to permit the voiced couterparts of the 's' series? zg, >> zgr, zd, zb, none of them or some of them? > > I say certainly. There's no reason these shouldn't be pronounceable if > the unvoiced ones are. I just got back from a trip to Borders' to do research on Italian, and, it seems, all those clusters are allowable in Italian, provided that sb- sd- sg- are really pronounced zb, zd, zg, etc. I just emailed Claudio Gnoli and invited him to join us as an expert on Italian consonant clusters. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/