Re: syllable importance

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 14:59 19.2.2004, Steg Belsky wrote:
>
> >Interesting... because "frazbazzlest" sounds perfectly fine to me.  To
> >be specific, it sounds like some silly (but perfectly legal)
> >pseudo-HipHop adjective in a television commercial.  "It's the
> >frazbazzlest!"
> >
> >
> >-Stephen (Steg)
> >  "shizzle my nizzle"
>
> Is it only I who tend to read _zz_ as /ts/ even in
> an English context?  Too much Italian in my backpack
> I'm sure.
I'm innocent on that charge.

> /BP -- who has discovered that my /r/ has a [z] allophone! :)
I seem to recall you've called _my_ 'lect weird ...

Seriously, IIRC you have [s`]>[s], yes? If so, I should hardly be very
surprised that you have a [z] allophone for a phoneme I have a [z`] allophone
for.

                                                   Andreas