A phonetically-based phoneme analysis of the Danish consonant system

The traditional phoneme analysis of the Danish consonant inventory links onset and coda consonants on basis historical alternations morphologically conditioned within a small subset lexicon. This proposes system resulting in large number neutralizations that cannot be dissolved, which allophones same lack shared phonetic content. We argue proposed by is impossible to learn from language input, renders an implausible description system. On theoretical discussions, we offer alternative analysis, believe learnable data available input. Our based insights Natural Phonology Bidirectional Phonetics Phonology. propose without undissolvable neutralizations, with content between phoneme, need rely children are unlikely early childhood.