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On 5/30/05, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > on 5/30/05 10:06 AM, Jim Henry at jimhenry1973@hidden.email wrote: > OTOH, it's not really that complicated, is it? The rule is that i and u > always become semivowels when juxtaposed with another vowel, and the only > other thing that has to be stated explicitly is that ui makes WE and iu > makes YOU - not OOEY or EEW. That sounds good. You should state the rule that way, as well as giving the list of all 11 diphthongs. > > > > > You also need to be explicit about how to parse sequences of three > > or more vowels. For instance, > > > > caia > > > > could be pronounced /'tSaj.a/ or /'tSa.ja/, > > as far as I can tell (forgive me if I overlooked the part > > where you said how to parse these). > > > > I didn't. But I could have: And given three vowels with a semivowel in the > middle, the semivowel always goes with the following vowel. Does that cover > it? That's clear enough. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm