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Cross-Linguistic Transcription Systems
https://clts.clld.org
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what about sibilant release? #62

Closed LinguList closed 3 years ago

LinguList commented 3 years ago

We have still many cases like "bz" or "ps" or "ks". But I am at a loss how to treat them, as they aren't clusters according to our strict rules and also fail the definition for affricates. So should we write them with k-superscript_s and add the feature "sibilant-release" or is this too radical?

cormacanderson commented 3 years ago

I would be very tempted to do this, although it is a little radical. The genuine clusters that seem to be outstanding are these ones and very occasional /kl/ and /tl/ that aren't affricates.