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Re: Phonology question

From:dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
Date:Monday, July 12, 1999, 22:00
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> Okay, a sound has popped up in my new language and I don't know what to > call it. > > I'd call it an alveolar fricative, but I already have /s/. > > It's like a /t/, except the tongue is relaxed, arched slightly so the very > tip touches the alveolar ridge. Sounds a bit like a whistle, and it > occurs at the end of words in my new language.
Sounds like a (drum roll, please) ... voiceless alveolar retroflex fricative (tada!). A very nice sound to have. The whistle tipped me off to its retroflex status, in case you're wondering. Dirk -- Dirk Elzinga dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu "All grammars leak." http://www.u.arizona.edu/~elzinga/ -Edward Sapir