Re: Quirks of the Lexicon
Marketa J Zvelebil 
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:34:53 -0700

On Oct 23,  3:07pm, Rob Zook wrote:
> Subject: Quirks of the Lexicon
> Hi all,
>
> I have been roaming thru the corpus and texturing the dictionary to
> make it easier to read into a program. I have found a couple of
> interesting things. In the dictionary, it states:
>
> "H occures only in ancient (Old) Vulcan., cf. ah'Hrak. It may be
> described as velar h with strong and emphatic friction, voiced
> similar to Arabic 'rain'."

Here the 'H' - already  is preceder by an 'h' which you will only come
accross in ancient Vulcan (which is still used sometime) and in cases like
that it pronounced in the back of throat.

>
> In the lexicon it states:
> "h - as in Eng. hut"

Always, unless alreaded preceded by an h'

>
> So which is correct? Or, do we have two phonomes here, one designated
> by a capital H and one by a little h?
>
> Also, the lexicon does not list a phonome of "kh" yet that letter
> combination occurs frequently in the Vulcan words from the TOS books.
> Could this perhaps be an alternative spelling for the phonome /q/?

Sorry that is our mistake. It shouls be pronounced as seen 'kh'.

marketa

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