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Rex May - Baloo wrote: > > on 3/6/02 3:17 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > > > > > How about the question of which vowel the weak goes with in cases like > > <hawa> or <kayu>? My feeling is that they should go with the following > > vowel (/'ha wa/, /'ka yu/) whenever there is a VWV combo. And, in (Oops. Shoulda been /'ka ju/. > > fact, the same should work for other weaks, so that <bara> is /'ba > > ra/, not /'bar a/. This seems to be the most common pattern. > > That certainly fits my instincts, and in the event of more that one weak, > one would tend to go with each syllable. Karma - kar ma. Now, it seems that we are in a position to define a syllable as something like "a vowel preceded by zero or more non-vowels, and followed by zero or more weaks other than /j/ or /w/". If that is correct, I'll leave it to you to translate that into a formulaic expression. -- Mike Wright http://www.CoastalFog.net _____________________________________________________ "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." -- Charles de Gaulle