The maximum onsets principle isn't universally accepted. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/syllabif.htm which ... /n/ goes in the third syllable because of stress.) Jonathan Who is Wells? Professor of phonetics at University College

If you think about the meanings of "allophone" and "phoneme," you'll realize this is an impossible request. What "others"? Hmm, sorry if my request was unclear. By "others," I meant what are the possible

Irma > misc.education.language.english in Is there more than one phonetic alphabets? AFAIK, the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the international standard. If you are using a newsreader with Unicode support ("40tude Dialog"

Ladefoged gives 22 "rules for English allophones" in the second edition of A Course in Phonetics (pp. 82-88), not all of which apply to all varieties of English. Granted. Summarizing, Selecting, 9) a glottal stop is inserted before

Hi everybody, In one of my classes, I am doing ... post it here. Thank you in advance for any help! If you think about the meanings of "allophone" and "phoneme," you'll realize this is an impossible request. What

Maybe somebody at sci.lang knows why the Greek prefix "epi-" came into Hebrew once as "'api" and once as "'afi", or "'aphi" if you like. Hebrew phonology is such that word-initial (epi) is

Hebrew phonology is such that word-initial (epi) is impossible. (p) and (f) are allophonic (variants of the same phoneme), with (p) appearing only after a consonant, or doubled after a short vowel, or in word-initial position. The "a" in

I'd go with /'&t@,mit@r/ ("AT-uh-mee-tur"), except with a tap for the /t/ sounds, which would make it, in ASCII IPA, /'&*@,mi*@r/ ("AD-uh-mee-dur" is the closest that pronunciation spelling can come to

I have a feeling that "alphabetical order" does not originate ... which order? Is there any rhyme or reason to it? Your sixth word pretty much answers the question. Chris, I think Ross is trying to point out that "alpha" and

I think it might be an idea to have something on the website about "short" and "long" vowels, because there does seem to be some confusion about this. Long and short vowels (in the layman's sense of "long" and