>> > >i know some people who have [k_w] and [p] in free variation... for
>> > Interesting. Where is this?
>>my dad does this (here in northeast ohio)... sometimes i have to ask >him
>>two or three times what he said...
You've mentioned this before. Like I said: if you've heard it, you've heard
it. But it is very difficult for me to imagine actually passing off [p] as
[k_w] and vice versa. I've been sitting here trying! I imagine a
ventriloquist might use something like that in order to make a [p] without
moving the lips. I can say an unaspirated [p] at the start of "pit", but
what I get sounds somewhere between "pit" and "bit"; nowhere near "quit".
I MUST hear a recording of this [p] <-> [k_w] phenomenon. Do you have a
microphone?
M