LINGUIST List 3.645

Sat 22 Aug 1992

Qs: French consonsants; Iconicity

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1. , French consonants - help!
2. bert peeters, Iconicity

I address myself to French specialists.

>From my interest in the functioning of French -schwa- (i.e. "mute e") has
necessarily evolved a need to know:

which consonant clusters (or `complex consonants', as I prefer to regard them)
are
a) possible or b) impossible

in i) syllable-initial or ii) syllable-final position.

I have no wish to duplicate work in this non-finite area. I shall be glad to
know of any work on these questions.

Of course, I know of standard works on -schwa-, including Valdman.
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Dr Wm Bennett
WAB2uk.ac.cam.phx

I would be grateful for any pointers (or, even better, quotes) to definitions
of "iconicity". The language of the definition should be French (first pref-
erence) or English.