This 55th collection of students’ pearls of wisdom, laboriously digitised from hand-
The word ten can be pronounced as transcribed* below, in these utterances:
ten dots [ten] ten bins [tem] tens [ten] ten cots [teŋ] tenpins [tem]
Describe the pattern that you observe in the data.
[+nasal] speech sounds must be followed by [-nasal] sounds only.
Before the pronunciation of [-nasal -dental] the consonants before are [+nasal -dental].
The consonant after it begins with bilabial sounds. For example, [m] → {([nb, np])}.
The /n/ sound is only pronounced when the next sound is fricative or aleolar.
They are pronounced in different phonetic sounds.
Allomorphs of this morpheme are voiceless plosives.
[tem] when the next sound has an ‘i’ sound to it, [teŋ] when the next sound is ‘o’ which involves rounding of the lips.
If ten precedes consonants /b, d, k, p, s/ which are in common [-nasal] no matter are [+voiced] or [-voiced], the word-
They are all followed by consonants. [n] is followed by a voiceless sound.
/-n/ becomes /-m/ before voiceless plosives, /-ŋ/ before voiced plosives.
Syllables preceding aspirated plosives anticipate the oncoming sound. For /m/ the lips round in anticipation of the aspirated plosive /b/.
/b/ in all cases are made voiced biliable plosives.
The coda is nasal and voiced, and sonorous.
Consonants following a mid front vowel are nasal.
Coronal consonants are labial in syllable-
People tend to confuse plosive sounds with nasal sounds.
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* The interested and/or confused reader may note that, as becomes apparent through the various scholarly works published from time to time in an outfit attracting international attention such as ours, our linguistic brethren across the big pond are not only separated from us by a common language, but also by a common transcription system. Thus, caveat lector