Re: permissible syllable codas in major world languages)?


Alan wrote:
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Alan wrote:
"Jim Heckman" wrote
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"Alan" > wrote

Sonja Elen Kisa"
wrote


In the following languages, what are all the permissible syllable
codas
at the end of a word? For example, I know that a Mandarin word
cannot
end in -p, but it can end in -n or the -ng phoneme.

Arabic, Hindi, French, English, German, Standard Mandarin, Spanish,
Russian, Japanese?

In Arabic you'll find that all the consonants found in the other
positions are permissible in the final position as well

Which brings up another complication: There are languages where the
permissible codas depend on the nucleus. Classical Arabic, for
example, doesn't normally allow a syllable-final consonant after a
long vowel (or a diphthong? I forget).

I've barely finished my first coffee, and it's quite possible I've
totally
misunderstood you, but it's news to me that Arabic "doesn't normally
allow a
syllable-final consonant after a
long vowel (or a diphthong)". Arabic is *full* of words ending in
consonants after long vowels (and diphthongs) ---- kita:b, kutayb,
raHi:m,
ummaha:t, majnu:n, rawD, Saghi:r, etc, etc ----- the list is (almost)
endless. Have I misunderstood you?

in classical arabic in non-pausal position there would be a case ending
following, restoing the syllable structure posited.

Well, yes, I should have specified pausal form . . . but that still doesn't
mean that Classical Arabic doesn't allow those combinations


only in pause.

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