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- noun phonetics a period of
voiceless breathing that precedes someconsonants in some languages -- a sort of mirror-image ofaspiration
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Examples
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If you want a nonsegmental feature interpretable as a cluster, one possibility that doesn't impose on the estabilish'd sound laws of Greek is preaspiration: /pajto/ pʰajʰto?
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Egad, I missed an important issue here: "If you want a nonsegmental feature interpretable as a cluster, one possibility that doesn't impose on the estabilish'd sound laws of Greek is preaspiration: /pajto/ pʰajʰto?"
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But continuing with the third possibility of preaspiration… on the basis of this single example, there are a number of possible explanations for the distribution, for example after vowels and semivowel.
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Granted, allophonic preaspiration is not quite normal either and were it phonemic, it would not be any less of an assumption than a phonemic *ts or *st would, I'm only bringing this possibility up to point that *ts and *st are not the only viable options here.
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To pursue this end, I'd recommend explaining the rules behind this alleged preaspiration, particularly since in your example [j] and [tʰ] are not tautosyllabic.
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