RE: IPA Null Consonant

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 10:50:33 EDT

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> One more linguistic usage sample (don't have any linguistic books at my
desk,
> so I'll have to resort to googling)-- the Finnish "consonant gradation":
>
> http://www.uta.fi/~km56049/finnish/diabk.html
>
> And I can assure you that the Finnish consonant gradation does not change
> 'k' to the Danish vowel :-) It simply means "disappears" (or in reverse,
> "appears from nothing").

This is basically a variation of one of the uses I cited in an earlier
message: for representing phonological deletion rules.

- Peter

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