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Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)

From:Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 15, 2003, 11:33
>But if acoustically, it is recognised that we have an affricate rather than >simple cluster, we know for sure that we have a single phoneme here. The >problem is only when what we have is definitely a cluster, like [ps] in Greek.
Surely it's not a theoretical impossibility for a phonemic cluster to be realised as an acoustic affricate? Ian

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