Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 15, 2003, 12:13 |
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En réponse à Ian Spackman :
>Surely it's not a theoretical impossibility for a phonemic cluster to be
>realised as an acoustic affricate?
Of course not, especially diachronically speaking (affricates often
originate with consonant clusters). But such a situation is according to me
very temporary. When it arises, the phonemic cluster gets quickly
reanalysed as a single phoneme, in the sense that it's how people will hear it.
Christophe Grandsire.
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