Re: English syllable structure

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> Quoting Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>:
>
> > John Cowan wrote:
> > > Since English has only /b p m k g N/ as non-alveolar consonants,
> >
> > 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 /h/

> > > 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>?
Never heard the word, but I would pronounce is /SO:/ if I saw it (oh, not
another /SO:/... Shaw, sure, shore and now pshaw... I think I'll create a
conlang with lots of interestingly spelt words but only two phonemes...)

Tristan

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