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Re: -rgh (was Re: vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb))

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: -rgh (was Re: vowels vs. consonants <Re: Klingon WOTD: pIl (verb))
• Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:54:15 -0700 (PDT)
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--- QeS 'utlh <[email protected]> wrote:

> ghItlhpu' ter'eS:
> >I have always suspected that this is a case of
> >r-coloring of the preceding vowel, so that there
> >really isn't a consonant cluster {rgh} but a
> >(vowel+r)+{gh} complex.
> 
> This is very possible. I have heard that on the
> tapes, Okrand never trills 
> the {r} in words ending with the {-rgh} coda.
> However, it begs the question: 
> why does it exclusively happen with the final
> consonant {gh}?
>

I might be willing to hypothesize that _every_
instance of V+/r/+C is a case of r-coloring, and
that in most cases, the /r/ drops out before a
consonant, except for the special features (?)
of /gh/ that cause it to be retained. 8+)

-- ter'eS 

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