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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, July 23, 2004, 21:19
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