6.393 Sum: German /tS/ (tsch)

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Subject: 6.393 Sum: German /tS/ (tsch)
 
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:51:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Larry Trask" (larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk)
Subject: Summary: German /tS/ (tsch)
 
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:51:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Larry Trask" (larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk)
Subject: Summary: German /tS/ (tsch)
 
 
Several weeks ago I posted a query as to whether German /tS/, as in
(tschu"s) and <deutsch>, was best regarded as a single segment or as
a sequence.  I received nine replies, and there was no consensus.  As
far as I could tell (not all respondents were fully committal), the
responses break down as follows:
 
  It's a single segment:          3
  It's a sequence:                2
  Either analysis is defensible:  1
  No firm position:               3
 
Guess I'm still in the dark.  My thanks to Charles Scott, Mark
Mandel, Geoffrey Nathan, Alexis Manaster-Ramer, Jakob Dempsey,
Michael Jesson, Ursula Doleschal, John Jeep, and Reinhard Hahn for
responding.  I replied individually to all of them, but two of my
replies mysteriously bounced.
 
Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
England
 
larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk
 
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