Re: Betreft: Re: Jaars IPA Helper
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 14, 2000, 3:58 |
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:00:56 -0500, Paul Bennett <paulnkathy@...>
wrote:
>Doesn't Thai do something like this? I've only ever read a holiday
>phrasebook, but ISTR the book refered in it's pronounciation guide
>to two (or more?) series of three stops {p,b and bp} and {t, d and dt}
>which by the description sound like three levels of voicing.
It's actually a contrast between aspirated, voiced, and voiceless stops.
(The "th" in "Thai" is an aspirated stop.)
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