Re: Consonant Clusters at the Beginning of Words II
Saul Epstein 
Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:33:15 -0600

From: Rob Zook <rzook*informix,com>
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 1997 5:31 PM
 
> At 04:37 PM 11/11/97 -0600, Saul wrote:
> 
> >I meant to assert it actually, but I don't have my message where I
can
> >get to it to check. I only left out stop+/w/ because I don't think
/w/ 
> >is an approximant.
> 
> I may have gotten that one wrong. I'm not sure. I have not got a 
> complete, or even faintly complete list of English consonents and
their
> IPA cousins.

No, you're right about that. IPA uses <w> to represent an
approximant. (Angle-brackets indicate an orthographic convention.) I
just think the Vulcan phoneme /w/ is a fricative with an approximant
allophone. (Slashes indicate a broad or phonemic transcription.) In
other words, /w/ is sometimes [w] but sometimes [B]. (Square brackets
indicate a narrow or phonetic transcription.)

> >>That leaves with vr, and wh. I will leave wh for Marketa to
solve,
> >>since it appears in wh'ltri which I think is a word of her
construction.
> >
> >It's possible that <w~'l> or even <w~l> was meant, in the original
> >transcription.
> 
> Actually, wh'ltri is the original transcription. I did not alter it
> since I did not know what <wh> was supposed to sound like.

Oh, I know. I meant that Marketa might have meant what was originally
<w~> when she wrote <wh>.

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