Friday, January 30, 2009

Variable syllabic boundaries 13

13.
Syllable-initial occlusives are aspirated. e.g., [tʰ] in contain, but [t] in stop.

The second of the three syllabalizations of extra--ec~stra, ex~tra, ext~ra--is the only one that has [tʰ] .

Since this R operates before schwa deletion for some speakers, support may differ from sport in that former may have [pʰ].

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