Re: Consonant clusters (was Citation forms of words,and the cynicism required to study Georgian)
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2001, 23:23 |
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Pavel Iosad wrote:
> > > (Somehow, the more extreme examples in English phonology -- "two
> > > sixths [t_hu: sIksTs]" -- never seem to come up in these discussions.)
> >
> > Indeed. The same word you cite is the one I try avoiding in English :-)
>
> Does anyone actually pronounce the first s in that cluster? I say
> [sIkTs]
Not only the first s, but a following [t] (affricated to the [T])
([sIkstTs]), as I indicated in another post, although this makes it (imho)
easier to say.
Tristan
anstouh@yahoo.com.au