Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 21, 2003, 17:15 |
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"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> I suppose it's possible that the underlying structure is /huan/, but
> I didn't think /u/ was devoiced before a vowel.
And even if it were, that would be three morae, whereas [p\An] is only
two.
Theoretically, I suppose one could analyze it as being /hwan/ or
something, but that would be introducing an otherwise non-existent
*type* of cluster.
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