Chapter 4 - Homework Exercise D
Keep track of which contexts have words and which ones don't in a table like the one below. A later question asks for a generalization - does the voicing of the final consonant, or the place of articulation limit whether a vowel and consonant combination can occur?
Which vowel occurs before the smallest number of consonants?
Is there a word in English that ends in the following sequence? (yes/no)
[il]
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[_b] | [_m] | [_f] | [_t] | [_n] | [_l] | [_s] | [_z] | [_k] | [_g] | |
[ɛ] | ||||||||||
[ʌ] | ||||||||||
[aɪ] | ||||||||||
[aʊ] | ||||||||||
[ɔɪ] | ||||||||||
[i] |