Re: Unilang: the Phonotactics

David Peterson wrote:
>     So, do you aspirate the /t/?
Nope.

> Because no matter how much I try, I can't
> pronounce that /t/, I can only get a glottal stop with my tongue going to
> where it would if a [t] were there.  If I try to pronounce the [t], I end up
> with the affricate [t] + voiceless lateral fricative.
Interesting.  I definitely have a [t] followed by a [l].  It's not hard,
it's just the tongue's sides being lowered rapidly.  With some practice,
I can make a [tl] cluster syllable-initially, too, like [tla], altho I
don't care much for the sound of it, which is why I gave /l/ a [r]
allophone in that sort of environment, in Uatakassí.

Just thought of something, take the word "slow", the tongue's in the
same place for /s/ that it is for /t/, and [s] to [l] involves a similar
movement as [t] to [l].

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