Date:  Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:48:55 CDT

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>

Subject: Re: Consonant Cluster Reduction



I once ordered two Pabsts and managed, with little difficulty, to

lengthen the vowel sufficiently for the second stop to be perceived as

voiced. Others at the table tried to do the same but not all of them

could control airsteam and laryngeal musculature well enough to

accomplish this simple little feat. But when I was an undergraduate and

has occasion to refer to Sbisa Dining Hall, I always managed voice-onset

of the vowel so that there was a clear [sb-] cluster. Maybe I don't

really speak English and need some EOL.    DMLance