Re: my phonology

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@Y...> wrote:

> >I think /C/
> >is so much different from /x/ that a contrast would be feasible.
>
> You might be cheated by your German ears. I believe that German /x/
often
> tends to be [X]. At least I think I can observe that I pronounce my
German
> /x/ further back in the mouth than my German /k/.
German Ach-Laut is usually somewhere in between [X] and [x] --
[x_-] maybe?

I can pronounce both of the latter, and consider them quite
distinct.  [C] and [x] sound very different to me.  The Russians
at my institute use [x] in "ich", and it doesn't sound like
either High German [C], High German [x_-] or Swiss [X].

Distinguishing /X x_- x/ in a language is probably a bit tight,
but you could very plausibly get away with /X x C/.


-- Christian Thalmann

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