Re: CHAT: ConScripts

I think a case could be made that, in normal English speech, what is being
produced here is not the phoneme cluster /ftsm/ but instead /fcm/ even
though /c/ is not an accepted phoneme of the language, only occuring in
"Correct" pronunciations of foreign words that do possess this phoneme such
as "Mozart" or "Zeitgeist" - so you only need to assimilate /c/ to two
neighbouring phonemes. Be fun if /c/ became a new phoneme of English!
Mike
>>
>> I'm sure that's meant as a generalization, but just to set the record
>> straight, I always pronounce the /t/ in "crafts" and in "craftsman" no
>> matter how rapidly I'm speaking.  I just can't imagine saying "crafs."
>

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