In first reading, my attempt might be /d͡ʒiː.əˈkoʊsoʊ/ because that is like how we say the name Giovanni in the US. I nearly broke into a sweat just now trying to pronounce all those /oʊ/'s in a row.

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Wouldn't this one usually be /ʤəˈkoʊsoʊ/ in practice?

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‘The Existing Phonology of English Dialects’ (Alexander J. Ellis 1889) #linguistics #language #dialect #dialectology #sociolinguistics #Northumbria #philology #Victorians #phonetics #phonology #pronunciation #GeorgeBernardShaw #polymaths

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Outsiders don't realize that #2 ≠ #5 because they believe all tone languages are monosyllabic. Some tonologists argue about whether #1 or #3 reflect #4. Other tonologists might believe that production/perception targets are more nuanced, so perhaps #4 and #5 are bigger than #2.

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You could count by... 1. underlying/abstract tonal categories 2. surface tonal shapes on one syllable, i.e. what speakers must produce 3. primitives, e.g. HM is just H+M 4. what listeners must decipher as categories (maybe any of the above or something else?) 5. possible melodies on a morpheme

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