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Re: Phonotactics of languages
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Satrajit S Ghosh wrote:
> I am looking for a source that describes phonotactics of languages. In
> particular, I am interested in phoneme clusters that are not permissible
> in American English but are allowed in other languages.
>
What about the special case that certain phonemes do not exist in one
language or the other? For example, I think that the vowel set of most
European languages differs from that of English.
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