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Re: Phonology question

From:John Fisher <john@...>
Date:Monday, July 12, 1999, 22:28
In message <Pine.GSO.4.10.9907121648010.13555-100000@...>,
Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> writes
>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 "flat" [s], as against an ordinary [s] which is grooved, so that the air only escapes in the middle. Another way to look at it is as an alveolar version of [T] (theta), because that is usually not grooved. --John -- John Fisher john@drummond.demon.co.uk johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk Elet Anta website: http://www.drummond.demon.co.uk/anta/ Drummond ro cleshfan merec; fanye litoc, inye litoc