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Re: Unilang: the Phonotactics

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, April 19, 2001, 5:33
David Peterson wrote:
    Well, if you'll notice, trying to go from [t] to [l] involves placing
your tongue on the alveolar regions to stop the flow of air, releasing, but
not really, since you're immediately going back to that alveolar region to
stop the flow of air and let it out laterally.

Pardon my 2cents-- but there's your problem.  DON'T release the tongue tip;
let the air blow out the sides of the tongue.  Then release the tongue tip.
Practice--- but without the glottal stop, please-- potluck, gatling,
bottling.

As my carpenter friend kept saying, as we were working on my house, "It's
easy".
And eventually it is :-)