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Linguistics

Notes
t — j — — — —

n sne Ω w — — — —

r — — — —
m smel
— — — lju:d
l
3 —
t — — — —
nju:z
z — n — — —
mju:d
m — — —
ð —
— — — —
3
v —
z — — — —

h — ð — — — —

v — — — vju: w seem familiar: the vowel name ‘schwa’, and the name of the soft drinks brand Schweppes. This is, however, a very infrequent cluster for
∫ — Two-consonant clusters of s plus l, w, j are also possible (e.g. slwp, sw1ŋ, sju:), and even perhaps sr in ‘syringe’ sr1nd3 for many speakers. These clusters can be analysed either as pre-initial s plus initial s plus initial l, w, j, r or initial s plus post-initial l, w, j, r. There is no clear answer to the question of which
Initial h — — — hju:d¥ Many Welsh names (including some well known outside Wales)—such as girls’ names like Gwen and place names like the country of Gwent-have initla gw

s —
∫ ru:
— ∫ ? 3 — Some people pronounce the word ‘syringe’ as sr1nd3; there are no other cases of sr unless one counts foreign names (e.g. Sri Lanka)
θ — s sw1m
slwp ? 1 sju: The only possible occurrence of gj would be in the archaic (heraldic) word ‘gules’, which is in very few people’s vocabulry.
Ω :t
e
sf1
f e θ — qr θw ? 5
Table: 9.2 Two-consonant clusters with pre-initial s
flaw fraw — fju:
f
g — analysis is better; here they are treated in the latter way, and appear in Table: 9.3.
g glu; grwn ? 2 ? 4
d —
d drwp dwel dju: and English speakers seem to find them prefectly easy to pronounce.
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b — Table: 9.3 Two-consonant clusters with post-initial l, r, w, j b k blæk blew brw t kraw — kwwk bju:ti kju: θj occurs in the archaic word ‘thew’ only.

Pre-initial s followed by: k t p skwn stwk spwn Note: t p — plew l trew prew r twwn w— tju:n : pj j Notes in doubtful cases: Two cases make ∫ English.

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