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Mike S., On 24/08/2012 06:45:
Yes, that's the idea. Schwas can be inserted at will between consonants.
Are there going to be any rules on where they will be inserted in the
"standard" dialect and how they will be written, metalinguistically
if not otherwise?
I advocate No to answer both questions.
> /y w/ could be used
> in root onsets, but I would reserve /ay/ etc. as variables.
I was originally thinking of them as ordinary consonants, but I can
see how they can cause trouble when they are followed by another
consonant. Maybe I will remove them from the current portion of the
grammar and perhaps reserve them for stuff not yet considered, like
interjections and illocutionary indicators.
I think they could safely form Py�C and Tw�C sequences where P is a
non-coronal obstruent and T is a non-labial obstruent. I think
putting them at predicate-edges position is iffy because I don't like
/iy yi uw wu/ arising at word boundaries. Probably not worth the
headaches.
C(@){i|u}@C would work if the second /@/ is not omissible. You could write it orthographically as <CiiC, CuuC>. It would affect the morphological parsing of the phonological string, though, because faced with <Cu>, you'd not know where to insert boundaries until you ascertain whether a <u> follows.
--And.