Re: XSAMPA for /ts/?

Stone Gordonssen wrote:

> Can someone tell me the XSAMPA symbols for the "ts" sound at the end
> of the
> English words "cats"? Is it the ligation [ts]?
At the end of the English word 'cats', it's just /ts/ (and probably
[ts], though someone out there probably says [?s]), simply being a
sequence of /t/ and /s/. In the German word 'zehn', the t-s ligature
might be appropriate for a phonemic transcription, but I'm not sure that
there's a phonetic difference between [ts] (sequence) and [t_s]
(affricative).

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