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in other words, men coordinates clauses, while utan coordinates verbs.

fishing net

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a plant that isn't a tree

muffins and cupcakes have different batter don't they?

shimobaatar wrote: Why?

It can be difficult to represent them. But this isn't a reason to avoid them, it's a reason to represent them differently.

"stein" is only pronounced /stin/ in unstressed position in English, I think. I'd pronounce "Bernstein" as /bɜ˞nstin/ but "Stein" is definitely /staɪn/.

Yo utilizo sólo raramente el imperfecto. Pero, penso que el imperfecto en español es como la construcción en inglés "was doing sth." Tengo razón? Ayúdame, hablandos nativos! I only rarely use the imperfective. But, I think the imperfective in Spanish is like the construction in English &q...

Jiiku verbs prefixes: te- : progressive/continuous present chi- : irrealis/future ga[R]- : antipassive some affixes can change whether the vowels in a word are [+ATR] or [-ATR]. The antipassive is one of these. di techunda geer. 'I am riding a horse' dè gàchunda. 'I am riding.' Other affixes are not...

I'm well aware that there is a phenomenon called voice-onset time. But how does the idea "period of voicelessness" change depending on where it is? this period of voicelessness does tend to be characterized by the vowel that's after it but of course that is a quality of the vowel, not the ...

Yeah that is a very helpful resource I'm sure. Not overly forward at all.

So what you mean is there's a period of indiscriminate airflow not accompanied by voicing? that sounds pretty much exactly like what you described aspiration as when it doesn't occur before a vowel.

The same thing that distinguishes them everywhere else. As Sumelic points out, it's not quite that simple. Before vowels, aspirated sounds are distinguished by increased voice onset time - but if there's no following voiced sound, then there's no determinable voice onset, either. What's happening (...

The same thing that distinguishes them everywhere else.

I've said this before, but like, ergativity doesn't seem like a complicated concept at all. What is there to get? The S and the O are together instead of the S and the A. Big deal.

huŋ. di huŋ vèe ŋara na gusin.
No. I didn't actually do that. :0

di techunda geer shi ŋan ùtoo.
I'm riding a horse through the field.

In Somali, /ʕ/ is written with <c> because it resembles the Arabic letter 'ayn.

Jiiku is an ergative language and has 'case marking', but rather than being attached directly to the noun, a case marker is attached to whatever is the leftmost element in the NP. This is often an article or demonstrative, but of course can be a noun as well. The cases are ergative, absolutive, and ...

Hoy comes tú sólo una manzana? Debes de tener hambre!
You only ate an apple today? You must be hungry!

Sumelic wrote: Do you merge /ʌl ol/ into words with historical /ɔl/ like mall, or do you have /ɑl/ for the latter?

I have /ɑl/ for those.

American English speaker: I have several vowel mergers before /l/. /aʊl æl/ > æɫ (this merger happens elsewhere in my speech but I can't figure out what the other conditions are) /ʌl ol/ > ɔɫ /i ɪ/ > ɪɫ (only sometimes; 'really' is always pronounced [ɹɪɫi]. I think I only have this merger in multi-s...