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

Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>:

> 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?
Nope. [h] is the syllable-initial realization of /S/, while syllable-initial [S]
is a separate phoneme [C].

(This is basically what I'd have to accept to fit my Swedish 'lect into the
phonematization I learnt from textbooks, except it's syllable-initial [x].)

                                                   Andreas