Re: English syllable structure
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 19:31 |
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Quoting Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>:
> John Cowan wrote:
> > Since English has only /b p m k g N/ as non-alveolar consonants,
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> what about /f v w/ ?
Or indeed also /T D S Z W/ and, in some dialects, /x/. Not to mention
phonetic variants of all those phonemes.
> > and (AFAIK) only /mp Nk Ng/ as non-alveolar clusters,
[Jumping into conversation:] Are we talking about coda clusters,
or onset clusters? What about [pS] as in <pshaw>?
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