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

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).

Pete

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