Re: English syllable structure

Dirk Elzinga wrote:

> I'm not sure why this observation would be "trivial"; it is a real
> generalization about English syllable structure.

True, but there are only a tri-vial number (three) of non-alveolar
clusters.  For a proper formal-linguistics generalization you need
at least four examples.  And so the phoneme died.

:-)

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