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If the etymology from "dun" is true, I would guess the current pronunciation is either random or a spelling pronunciation, not a regular sound change. Here's some evidence that some people think of t …

Predicting the pronunciation of an English word from its spelling is fairly tricky, especially when you’re dealing with vowels. The “short vowel before a double consonant” rule is a lot more reliable …

The nature of the difference and how it is phonetically realized would depend on the speaker (for some speakers, there might not even be much phonetic difference), but the basic difference would be th …

A derived environment is a phonological context that exists because of a rule or process. For example, the English plural noun "socks" in the sentence "I have white socks" has a final [ks] cluster tha …

One proposed name for a reversed affricate is "suffricate".1 Whether suffricates exist seems to depend on what you think of as the defining characteristic of an affricate. As far as I know, there have …

To start out, I think it's worth mentioning that it's debated whether phonemes are real. If phonemes are imaginary, there might be no greater reason than whimsy and happenstance for listing one langua …

from Generativist phonological traditions along the lines of Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of English, the idea that words like potency, latency, decency, presidency end at some level of morpho-phonology … Stress & vowel length The main motivation that I think I understand is stress and vowel length: if we say that "potency" has only two syllables at the level of phonology where stress and vowel length rules …

Is Chomsky and Halle's viewpoint current in phonology, or do most people now have a different interpretation? … I know there are other approaches to phonology, such as Optimality Theory, but I am only an amateur and not familar with them in any depth. …

[Edit: At first, I completely misread this question as asking about voiced aspirates. Sorry about that!] Yes. Gujarati is the first example I was able to find. Wikipedia says Intervocalically …

Certainly. There are many Australian languages with a lot of coronal POAs for stops; dental, alveolar, and retroflex stops are generally differentiated, in addition to a palatal/alveolo-palatal series …

I'm talking about words that end with a consonant in the phonology, not in the spelling. E.g. the word "tape" in French is generally pronounced [tap] with one syllable ending in a released /p/. …

(partial answer) Actually, the uvular stop in Semitic languages is often thought to have developed from an earlier "emphatic" velar stop. I think there are some extant Semitic languages where it is r …

My understanding is that in German, the "lenis-fortis" distinction is realized differently in different dialects. For example, Standard German makes use of aspiration to distinguish syllable-initial / …

Note: I don't know too much about phonetics, so this answer is mainly about phonology. …

/ɛ̃/ is where /ɛ/ is? Generic IPA charts don't show you where phonemes are; they show you where phones are. The standard convention would be that the phone [ɛ̃] is in the same "place" as the phon …