Re: What's the different between /tS/ as one phoneme and as two?

From: Nathan Sanders (nsanders.DIE.SPAM_at_wso.williams.edu)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:55:54 GMT

In article <cdemr1$793$2@news.hawaii.edu>,
 Greg Lee <greg@ling.lll.hawaii.edu> wrote:

> > > > And actually, for some speakers, their may be an actual acoustic
> > > > difference between the phoneme [tS] and the sequence [tS], so a tiebar
> > > > would be unnecessary: [h&?tSA?p] versus [h&tSI?t].
>
> This is not a persuasive example, because the stresses on the second
> syllables of your pair differ, and that difference is sufficient
> to explain the difference in syllabification. Also, in <hat shop>

True.

How about "the cat she titles" versus "the catchy titles"?

Nathan 

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