24-08-2017, 06:59 PM
Right! I missed Emma's comment but that's certainly the best explanation.
So that means that one of the most pertinent questions remains: what is q? Your stats strongly suggest that compared to labels, it is "added" to words in fluent text.
In her blog post Emma argues for a sound value for q, in which case the only possibility I see is that it's a sandhi effect. This makes me wonder: can sandhi evoke sounds which lie outside of the language's phoneme inventory? Maybe something like a glottal stop?
So that means that one of the most pertinent questions remains: what is q? Your stats strongly suggest that compared to labels, it is "added" to words in fluent text.
In her blog post Emma argues for a sound value for q, in which case the only possibility I see is that it's a sandhi effect. This makes me wonder: can sandhi evoke sounds which lie outside of the language's phoneme inventory? Maybe something like a glottal stop?