Re: Mystery Phoneme

Caleb Hines scripsit:

> In contrast to a normal /t/ which is made with the tip of the tonge above
> and behind the upper teeth, the mystery sound is produced by bracing the
> tip of the tongue behind the lower teeth and raising the middle of the
> tongue to the same point that the tip would touch in a normal /t/ (or maybe
> slightly further back).
This sounds like a palatalized [t], written [t;] in X-SAMPA.
Though it's not articulated in the same way as a canonical [t;], it sounds
exactly the same to me.

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