Re: Portuguese (Was: French)
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andreasj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 21:59 |
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Roger Mills <romiltz@...> wrote:
> Edgard Bikelis wrote:
>> BTW, is there
>> something like it to english? I really don't know what
>> to do with some
>> encounters... like /sT/ /sD/...
>>
> At risk of starting a YAEPT...
>
> I think /sD/ is impossible except across _word_ boundary-- it's/what's the..,
> pass the... and in those cases it's simply [...s D...] /s#D/
>
> /sT/ OTOH can occur at morpheme boundary (rare) e.g. in "sixth" /sIks+T/ which I
> pronounce with an intervening stop between the s and the T [sIks(t)T].
Would this intervening stop also appear in "aesthete", where the /s/
and /T/ are in different syllables?
--
Andreas Johansson
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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