> Andreas Johansson wrote: What do you mean by
>"phonetic type"? You're
> > obviously not meaning "phoneme",
> > since English don't have even close to four houndred
> > of them (it's closer to
> > forty, but I'm to lazy to check right now, and it
> > varies from dialect to
> > dialect in any case). Syllables? Assuming twenty
> > possible onsets, ten
> > possible centers (vowels) and twenty possible codas
> > (all underestimates of
> > the English inventories), we land on 4000 possible
> > syllables. So what are
> > you talking about?
> > No matter what you mean, I very much doubt that
> > thinking speed is seriously
> > affected by linguistic issues (for starters, you may
> > want to recheck your
> > assumption that the time needed to analyze one unit
> > out of a set of two is
> > the same as the one needed to analyze one out of a
> > set of four houndred).
> >
> >
> > Andreas
>Answer:Both syllbal and phoneme are from linear
>phonology, as in late twenty century, there is an
>nonlinear phonology. J.R.Firth gave an new unit of
>sound 'one articulation type'. The idea of both
>consonant and vowel being regarded as oral motions in
>series was wrong one. It was cheated by letters
>created by human being, in fact, when you say 'be' you
>can separate 'b' from 'e' . They were uttered
>togather.
>We say that's a phonetic type or one action of mouth.
>I think there are more explanation in:
>
>
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