Re: Consonant clusters (was Citation forms of words,and the cynicism required to study Georgian)
| From: | David Starner <starner@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2001, 0:15 |
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:15:46PM -0500, 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]
I'm hearing [sIkss] ([sIks:]?), myself.
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