Re: Phoneme Analysis Question

From:    Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
> From: "Jean-François Colson" <fa597525@...>
> > BTW How do you pronounce |it'd|? Do you insert a vowel between /t/ and /d/
> > or do you succeed to say
> > [Itd]?
>
> I say [' It @d]; I insert a vowel.
I'd say this as well.  Another option I also use is deletion of the
/t/:  [Id] = "it would".  This is an interesting construction, since
Zwicky and Pullum would be forced to argue that its negation plus
_have_, videlicet "I'd'n'a" [I would not have], involves a clitic
being followed by an affix which is in turn being followed by a
clitic.  Such constructions are predicted not to exist.

> Can you have a sequence of voiceless + voiced (or vice versa; likewise
> aspirated + unaspirated, ejective + non-ejective) without an intervening
> schwa? I'd think you'd either have to insert the vowel or assimilate the
> consonants.
Georgian shows that one can indeed have such sequences, but not
in final position like this.  There, Georgian has obligatory final
devoicing like many languages.

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