Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:31:43 -0500, Mark P. Line <mark@...>
wrote:
> Andreas Johansson said:
>>
>> Never heard that one, but I've seen it argued that the [N] in "think" is
>> an /n/.
>>
>> Can't recall what the supposed benefit of that interpretation is -
>> offhand, I
>> guess one might try and eliminate the /N/ phoneme wholly by interpreting
>> syllable-final [N] as /ng/.
>
> Clearly, [N] is an allophone of /h/.
>
> They're in complementary distribution, right?
Hey, if Hangul can do it...
(The Hangul for [N], a circle, also represents a null onset.)


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