Re: English syllable structure

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From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>

> Then too you have to decide how inclusive to be:  natively, /S/ only
> precedes /r/, but if you include germanisms and yiddishisms it occurs
more
> widely, 'spiel, schlemiehl, schmuck etc'.  /labial-w.../ occurs only in
the
> loan 'bwana'; /Cj.../ only if followed by /uw/, except for 'piano' and
> 'chiaroscuro'etc. etc. But certain things are totally no-no, of course.
My normal pronunciation os stupid is /StSu:pId/. Nix one theory. As for
labial W, consider teh consonant cluster written QU. Any number of words
have that labial W with almost any following vowel. And then there's words
such as tweak and twit, so nix two theory.


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Fabian
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