Re: USAGE: [YAEPT] (was Re: "To whom")
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 27, 2005, 12:57 |
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Hi!
"J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...> writes:
>..
> >
> >Oh yes, Zhu|'hoansi for one, IIRC. I think the voiced one comes first
> >there. And, what's fascinating, the language contrasts it with
> >something like /t/, /d/, /t_h/ and /t_>/. :-)
>
> Most remarkable! I fear I'd tend to confuse /t/, /d/, /t_>/, and /dt/, being
> used to a two-way distinction...
I did not remember it totally correctly, but the actual distincions
made are not less surprising in any way:
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/appendix/languages/zhu/zhu.html
**Henrik
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