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Podcast episode 15: Roman Jakobson, Prague Circle structuralism and phonology

History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences

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Sounds Marked by Subtlety

In English, when a voiceless stop follows an 'S' at the beginning of a word, it is consistently unaspirated, indicating that these sounds are allophones—variant realizations of a single phoneme. This phonetic variation is often subconscious for native speakers, who may not recognize these differences in pronunciation. Furthermore, the specific pattern observed in English is not a universal phenomenon across all human languages, highlighting the unique characteristics of English linguistics.

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