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Frank Y Gladney
gladney at UIUC.EDU
Sat Nov 17 17:10:50 UTC 2007
William Ryan writes:
>>Gugl'nut' one would expect to be a semelfactive verb and thus less
>>used. Personally I find the alternative guglianut', also to be found,
>>much more euphonious. [...] These are not phonetic but >>>>>>>>>>morphological mechanisms [,,,].
These two forms may in fact be related by phonetic (euphonious) mechanisms. _Gugl'nut'_ is unavoidably trisyllabic. My off-line correspondent informs me it is pronounced as if spelled _gugyl'nut'_. That spelling shows the [g] being released before the coronal occlusion for the [l'] is formed. But if the [l'] occlusion is formed before the [g] is released, this results in a (potentially) syllabie [l'], which is realized as [l'i], corresponding to the spelling _guglianut'_.
Frank
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