Re: Consonant clusters
| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 8, 2002, 12:21 |
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On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 22:01, Christopher Bates wrote:
> What are the most common consonant clusters allowed in languages? I've
> been trying to think of what english uses. It seems to have:
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> nasal + stop (at same place of articulation) eg went, wand, jump, mb
> (can't think of a word offhand with that one in) For some reason we
> don't have ngk or ngg... Although of course for some reason these
> combinations don't occur at the beginning of words, just the end.
-mb and '-ngg' never occur at the end of a word in English, the final
consonant became silent. '-ngk' happens all the time: 'drink', 'think',
'blink', 'ink', 'thank'. '-ngg-' intervolically occurs: 'finger',
'linger', 'longer', as does -mb-: 'combination'.
Tristan.