Re: Montreiano Orthography
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Saturday, October 21, 2000, 4:58 |
Carlos Thompson wrote:
> That continuum also exist for {b} and {g}, exact rules are not
> parallel. I mean, in "abre" (he opens), "padre" (father) and "bagre"
> (catfish), or in "rabo" (tail), "dado" (die) and "pago" (payment) the
> degree of oclusiveness/fricativeness
Strangely, I've found that I sometimes use [B], [P], and [w~] for /b/
/p/ and /m/. I can't figure out what the rules are, and it's not a very
common usage, probably less than 5% of the time, and only in the middle
of a sentence. Like, I'll sometimes say [AnBrejk] for "on break"
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