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Re: CHAT: cultural interpretation [was Re: THEORY: language and the brain]

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Thursday, July 3, 2003, 12:22
Staving Andreas Johansson:
>Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>: > > > Staving Thomas Wier: > > > > > > Also, it seems to me that Englishers tend to hear [dZ_0] as /dZ/ rather > > > > than /tS/. Nativers? > > > > > >That is the case. This is what you would expect if the contrast > > >in English is more between aspirated and nonaspirated than between > > >voiced and voiceless. > > > > > > > An alternative analysis might be that for a given voiceless consonant [c] > > and the corresponding voiced consonant [q], [c_h] is an allophone of [q] > > when whispering. (Note that c and q are arbitrary). > >You mean that [c]=/q/ and [c_h]=/c/, don't you? > > Andreas
What I think I mean is Underlying Realisation Normal speech Whispered Voiceless /c/ [c] [c] Voiced /q/ [q] [c_h] Hope that makes some sort of sense - try whispering /b/ and /p/ and you'll see what I'm talking about - /c/ and /q/ can be any pair contransting by voice Pete

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Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Tristan <kesuari@...>
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>