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Article #2586Re: syllables of English
From: Scott Horne
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 1988 02:03
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 1988 02:03
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From article <125@gollum.UUCP>, by rolandi@gollum.UUCP (Walter Rolandi):
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> Can anyone provide me with a list of all the constituent syllables of English?
I've read that there are more than 8000 such syllables (DeFrancis, _The
Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy_, U. of Hawaii). Good luck compiling a
list! (N.B.: Those are phonetically distinct syllabes, not graphically
distinct.)
Incidentally, Japanese has just over 100 syllables.
--Scott Horne
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!hubcap!shorne From: shorne@citron (Scott Horne) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.ai,sci.psychology Subject: Re: syllables of English Message-ID: <2115@hubcap.UUCP> Date: 7 Jul 88 02:03:31 GMT References: <125@gollum.UUCP> Sender: news@hubcap.UUCP Reply-To: shorne@citron Lines: 20