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William Ryan
wfr at SAS.AC.UK
Sat Nov 17 20:05:58 UTC 2007
An entirely convincing explanation. Thank you. Clearly gugl is a lexeme
for linguists to watch, and perhaps use as an example in class - it
promises a multitude of forms, even if some of those currently on the
net (razguglivat', pereguglit', obguglennyi for example) are probably
facetious.
Will
gladney at UIUC.EDU wrote:
> 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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