Re[2]: [tied] Re: IE lexical accent

At 3:35:21 PM on Thursday, July 22, 2004,
enlil@... wrote:

> Richard:

>> Do not English <twelfths> and <sixths> contain absurd
>> strings? And Jens has heard [ptkllI] in English.

> As a native North American English speaker I've never
> heard such a thing nor would I expect to since it
> completely violates known phonotactics of our language.
> English doesn't have five consonant clusters like this. Am
> I seeing that correctly, double "l"??

I've definitely heard [ptk:lI], and I can believe [ptkllI]
as a slightly more careful(!) version. You're relatively
unlikely to hear either in North America, however.

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Brian