Re: Mystery Phoneme
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 1, 2004, 23:24 |
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To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Re: Mystery Phoneme
At 12:35 18.12.2003, Florian Rivoal wrote:
>but none of my chinese books has a specific term for indicating that the
>tip of the down is behind the lower teeth. they indicate it with a full
>sentence.
I read in a book once that all Russian palatalized
consonants differ from their unpalatalized counterparts
in this feature. It actually helped me to get
palatalization right. Long after I discovered that
the main difference between Swedish /s\/ and
German [C] is in this respect. The Swedish sound
has a sibilance resulting from the air passing over
the edges of the lower teeth, which the German sound
lacks.
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To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Re: Mystery Phoneme
At 01:48 17.12.2003, Isidora Zamora wrote:
>The two sounds are not contrastive in Danish. (I'm not certain that Danish
>even has the more normal type of alveolar.)
Well Danish *does* have a surface distinction
between [s] /s/ and [s\] _sj_.
/BP 8^)
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