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[Laurence Horn]

At 1:51 PM -0400 4/21/00, Frank Abate wrote:
>Please, for the linguistically ignorant: what is CV?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Frank Abate


consonant-vowel, in the sense that the canonical syllable is of that form
(although it's more accurately (C)V).  Thus consonant clusters and (with
rare exceptions) syllable-final consonants do not occur, a fact that
emerges from loan words like those below or, say, Kurisumasu (for the Dec.
25 holiday) or beisuboru (for the American and Japanese pastime).  I assume
the "r" in "toddoler" is in fact silent.

larry

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>American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
>>
>> Since Japanese is a CV language, the inserted syllable in 'toddoler' is
>> understandable.  Ditto for your earlier cited "Salasa burger."
>>
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