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From: shorne@citron (Scott Horne)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.ai,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: syllables of English
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Date: 7 Jul 88 02:03:31 GMT
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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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