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

Staving Mark J Reed.:

>That was my understanding as well.  But what about borrowings?  The
>Japanese borrowed have the word "fan" (as in sports fan; actually, I've heard
>"fanatiku" more often, but the short form is also used), and pronounce
>it [p\an], and don't confuse it with "han".  That would seem to argue
>for [h] and [p\] being different phonemes...
>
Of course, Japanese does give you the option of analysing it as [p\u_0an]

Pete

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