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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, July 24, 2004, 5:27
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