Re: Phonotactics of languages (=?X-UNKNOWN?Q?T=F3th_L=E1szl=F3?= )

Subject: Re: Phonotactics of languages
From:    =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?T=F3th_L=E1szl=F3?=  <tothl(at)INF.U-SZEGED.HU>
Date:    Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:53:34 +0100

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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