Re: Introductions and a question about consonants
| From: | Peter Clark <peter-clark@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 20:36 |
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On Wednesday 15 January 2003 02:27 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> Well, in fact I do pronounce "think" as [TI~k], so this is not the whole
> story. For [I~] to become a new phoneme, it would have to contrast not
> just with plain [I] but with [In].
Well, how do you pronounce "thick"? [TIk]? If so, then why can't you say that
its a phoneme? You would have a minimal pair of [TI~k] vs. [TIk], yes/no?
:Peter
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