Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 19/11/2004 12:38, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> ...
>
> 1) /c/ above is a phoneme, not a grapheme.  It represents the IPA symbol
> c, which is different than English c.  (In fact, in my attempt to find what 
> this
> sounds like, I found English has no phoneme that is transcribed by /c/ in
> IPA).  ...
>  

This sound, IPA [c], can be heard (more or less) at the start of English 
"cute" etc, as the y sound following the c causes it to be pronounced 
well forward on the palate. But in English it is not a phoneme (it has 
no distinctive role - although "cute" is of course distinct from 
"coot"), but a phone or sound.


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