Re: Unilang: the Phonotactics

In a message dated 4/18/01 8:30:07 PM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:

<< Voiceless diacritic.  Actually, now that I pay closer attention, it's
actually voiced, so I shouldn't've put it at all.  :-)  Presumably
because it's syllabified as at-lan-tic, at-las, not *a-tlan-tic,
*a-tlas.
 >>

    So, do you aspirate the /t/?  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.

-David

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