Abstract
Consonants are segments whose articulation involves total or partial obstruction of the airstream at some point within the vocal tract. Greek had the consonants /p t k b d g pʰ tʰ kʰm ns l r h/.
1. Introduction
The Classical Attic consonant inventory is comprised of the following 15 phonemes (Lejeune 1955 and Brixhe 1996 are more detailed studies; Lejeune 1972, Meier-Brügger 1992, Rix 1992, and Sihler 1995 present the diachronic developments; Sturtevant 1940 and Allen 1973 pre…