Thomas R. Wier 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/
T D S Z are definitely coronal, if not perfectly alveolar.
What is W?
> [Jumping into conversation:] Are we talking about coda clusters,
> or onset clusters? What about [pS] as in <pshaw>?
Coda. Dirk said that non-alveolar clusters can't be preceded by
long vowels/diphthongs in English; I said there were only a few
such clusters.
And the traditional pronunciation of "pshaw" is /SO/ ~ /SA/ ~ /SQ/.
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