Re: Phonology question

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

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