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CC, onset
CC, onset (ordered by sonority)
CC, coda
CC, coda (ordered by sonority)
CCC, onset
CCC, onset (ordered by sonority)
CCC, coda
CCC, coda (ordered by sonority)
CCCC, onset
CCCC, onset (ordered by sonority)
CCCC, coda
CCCC, coda (ordered by sonority)
CCCCC, onset
CCCCC, onset (ordered by sonority)
CCCCC, coda
CCCCC, coda (ordered by sonority)
Selected languages: | Greek |
UPSID number: | 2000 |
Alternate name(s): | N/A |
Classification: | Indo-European, Greek |
The languages has | 31 segments |
Frequency index: | N/A |
Sounds: | [p] [b] [t̪] [d̪] [k] [ɡ] [s] [z] [f] [v] [θ] [ð] [x] [ɣ] [ts] [dz] [ɾ] [l̪] [m] [n̪] [i] [u] [ɛ] [ɔ] [ɐ] [c] [ɟ] [ç] [ʝ] [ɲ] [ʎ] |
Comments: | Greek is spoken primarily in Greece but also in parts of Cyprus, Italy, Albania and Turkey. *** Jacques Koreman: Palatals are here considered as phonemes, despite the analysis in Arvaniti (2007), where the existence of minimal pairs is acknowledged. |
Sources: | Baltazani, M. & Topinzi, N. (2013). Where the glide meets the palatals. In N. Lavidas, Th. Alexiou & A. Sougari (eds.), Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 1: Selected Papers from the 20th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL), 177–196. London: Versita de Gruyter. Arvaniti, A. (2007). Greek phonetics: the state of the art. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 8, 97–208. Jongman, A., Fourakis, M. & Sereno, J.A. (1989). The acoustic vowels space of Modern Greek and German. Language and Speech, 32, 221-248. |