19-09-2016, 07:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 19-09-2016, 07:28 PM by ThomasCoon.)
(19-09-2016, 03:39 PM)Emma May Smith wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There must be distinction between the gallows group [k, t] and [f, p]. The latter are much more restricted in where they appear within the text and almost never take [e] directly after them.
It is true that there are restrictions in where they appear, but that distinction may be wholly orthographic (an ornamentation for the first lines in paragraphs). If not, is there a linguistic explanation why a phoneme could appear commonly in the first ~10 words uttered and then only sporadically afterwards?
You're right about [pe] and [fe]. I didn't notice that. If [ch] = [ee], that could solve the problem, but I agree that's not proven.
Also, another popular "environment" for these letters:
[okch] (613 occurrences)
[otch] (590 occurrences)
[opch] (359 occurrences)
[ofch] (83 occurrences)