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Re: OT: Definitely Not YAEPT: English phoneme inventory?

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, July 17, 2003, 4:18
Nik Taylor wrote:


> Roger Mills wrote: > > one wanted to exclude Cw/Cy from the > > possible clusters since they only occured in loans, and not many at
that.)
> > Cw occurs in many native English words. E.g., twin, queen, dwarf, > swine, thwart. But, I think those might be the only native Cw > combinations. >
Oops, you're right. I was think of the native non-occurence of _labial_+w

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