On 6/28/2020 7:35 AM, Will Martin wrote:
The only thing you haven’t addressed is why there doesn’t seem to be an implied {w} in the {o} sound in all the recordings of Okrand pronouncing words like {Qo’noS}, or any other word that includes {o},
I did address it. I speculated that only words that actually end in *o* use a diphthong. That excludes words like *Qo'noS.*
You brought up the example of {gho-} as a syllable that doesn’t follow the {o} with a consonant,
No, I brought up the /word/ *gho* as an example of a word that ends in *o.* If it's actually about ending words with *o,* then the prefix *gho-* will never qualify for a diphthong, because it never ends a word.
So, no, you didn’t explicitly say that Okrand’s verbal description applied to only {gho-}. You said that maybe it only applies to syllables ending in {o}, and the only example that I know of is {gho-}, so that does logically follow that he’d be giving that description of how {o} is pronounced in {gho-}, while not giving an accurate description of the {o} sound in any other syllable in the vocabulary.
I am not responsible for your inability to think of other syllables ending in *o.* I can assure you that I had several of those other words in mind too. I just picked one to make an example. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name