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Well, it's a known phenomen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabic_consonant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabic_consonant E.g. in some West and South Slav
by wwosik 11y ago
Well, it's a known phenomen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabic_consonant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabic_consonant
E.g. in some West and South Slavic languages 'r' can be a syllable or its core, while in Polish it underwent a transformation into 'er' or 'rz' + vowel.
- mchaver 11y agoFor an article that seems to be written for non-linguists, I'm not sure why they didn't focus a bit more on English since there are wealth of examples of "no vowel syllables" in fast speech and many dialects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English#Syllabic_consonants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_without_vowels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_without_vowels
- BerislavLopac 11y agoA few Croatian examples, FWIW: prst: finger tvrd: hard krv: blood hrt: greyhound smrt: death trp: sea cucumber krt: without fat (e.g. meat) trk: act of running
- anon4 11y agoDon't all these have a schwa when you say them?
- BerislavLopac 11y agoNope. http://forvo.com/word/prst/#hr http://forvo.com/word/prst/#hr
- taejo 11y agoGerman can even have two syllabic consonants in a row: "gefundenen" is usually pronounced something like "gefuntn̩n̩"