Timeline for th followed by an s sound
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| Apr 4, 2013 at 23:43 | comment | added | John Lawler | No. I was suggesting, no doubt way too obliquely, that what you think you say (whatever that is, hearing it from the inside) may in fact not be what others hear you say (whatever that is, hearing it from the outside). | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 23:18 | comment | added | Mynamite | @JohnLawler Not sure I understand you. Are you saying 'I do' is the wrong response? I should have put "Nobody ever says /sɪksθs/" in quotes though. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 2:19 | comment | added | John Lawler | So you ever say it? | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:50 | comment | added | Mynamite | @JohnLawler Nobody ever says /sɪksθs/ ?? I do. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 14:47 | vote | accept | Spatz | ||
| Apr 2, 2013 at 14:44 | comment | added | John Lawler | @Spatz: It's still being investigated; there's a big literature on consonant cluster reduction and fast speech rules. I just transcribe what people say; I'm a grammarian, not a phonologist. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 14:37 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Thanks for showing the palatalization on century; non-native speakers often think I’m nuts when I tell them that it occurs in words like tree. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 14:35 | comment | added | Spatz | This is exactly what I was looking for. The discrepancy between English spelling and pronunciation makes it very hard to learn for non-native speakers. Do you know of any good reference about rules for sound combinations such as the one in /ðiyetinsɛnʃri/? | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 14:26 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |