At a certain point in a macro I have to determine whether shifting the final consonant(s) of one syllable to the next syllable results in a valid onset. Can anyone point me to a complete list of initial clusters for a given dialect, preferably standard southern UK English? I have looked but am only finding examples (and they're examples of orthographic clusters, when I want IPA). I can make my own list of course but would like to check I haven't missed anything.
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What's wrong with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology#Onset?– NardogDec 8, 2020 at 14:56
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It implies the possibility of *tl,dl,bw, it asserts the possibility of *θl based on thlipsis which is a what??– user6726Dec 8, 2020 at 15:56
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To OP: do you want orthographic clusters or universally-pronounced clusters?– user6726Dec 8, 2020 at 15:58
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@user6726 /bw/ sounds fine to me, e.g. in loans like "bueno" or interjections like "bwuh?"; similarly "abuela" syllabifies as /a.'bwej.lə/. (Though I come from an area with a decently high number of L1 Spanish speakers, which might be influencing things.)– Draconis ♦Dec 8, 2020 at 17:38
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1I list all the rules that regulate the English initial consonant clusters in this answer: linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/36430/2689 It doesn't include clusters with [j] since it's problematic to decide whether [j] that follows a consonant is a consonant itself.– Yellow SkyDec 18, 2020 at 17:25
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