Re: English syllable structure
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 18:42 |
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:33:32PM -0600, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
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> other English speakers in accepting complex onsets. My normal
> way of saying the word 'potato', for example, is [pt_hei(r"ou].
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Yikes... that sounds more like a mangled version of Greek (prefix?)
_pterw_ than "potato" to me. :-P Although, I *am* known for slang-ing
"potato" as "'tato" or "'taters". Or sometimes, "spud", but that's
something else altogether :-)
T
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