A. Martinet regarded that
hi
and
Iri
belong to a single phoneme, and gave the examples as
perfection beginning with phonemical /prf/ and professor with
/prrf/. He regarded that when /г/ occurs before a vowel it should
be notated as
Iri,
but when it occurs before a consonant, its nota
tion should be
hi.
The same conclusion was made by M. Swadesh
on the basis of «r - less» dialects of English in which
hi
is re
garded as a positional variant of the /г/ phoneme, but it has pho
nematic status in words like sofa /saufa/. A. Cohen, who cited the
above ideas, established the significant function of
hi
in English
words summer /Ъ лтэ/ - some /saiti/ rudder /rAda/ - ruddy /n\di/2.
According to B. Tmka in unstressed syllables only one pair of
phonemes may be distinguished:
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