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

Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:

> 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].
Supposed to read "... phoneme /C/.", of course.

                                                Andreas