| From: | Eric Christopherson <eric@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 30, 1998, 23:25 |
BP.Jonsson wrote:> Also [] are sometimes used to denote allophones, like "In Japanese /s/ is > [S] before /i/.True. But I was wondering, are [S] and [s] allophones of /s/ in Japanese, or are they separate phonemes? I would think phonemes, since [s] can occur before /a/, /u/, /e/, or /o/ and [S] can occur before /a/, /i/, /u/, or /o/, thus the domains of each intersect.