Thursday, July 7, 2011

/w/ + grapheme a

/w/ + grapheme a = /a/ / _[-velar]

a will correspond to /a/ when preceded by /w/ and followed by a nonvelar segment: swamp, swan, quality, wand, wander, want, wanton, wash, walter, rwanda, etc

However, when preceded by /w/ and followed by a velar, it will typically correspond to
/æ/: quack, twang, wax, wag, etc

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