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Re: Speedtalk. Again!

From:makeenan <makeenan@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 23:42
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>makeenan scripsit: > >You could also use the Plan-B approach: assign each consonant a vowel >allophone, and use consonant and vowel allophones alternately. Then every >possible phoneme sequence is pronounceable. A side effect is that each >morpheme has two allomorphs depending on how many phonemes have preceded >it in the current utterance.
Wouldn't this also reduce the posible phoneme pool? Actually I had thought of this but that would rtequire twice as much memorization. -Duke
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