Re: retroflex consonants

Quoth Joe:

> I thought |sz| and |z.| were both postalveolar ([S] and [Z]).  Am I insane?
No, just incorrect. :) Believe me, whatever the books may say (perhaps
they're reluctant to describe Polish in terms of retroflexion because it's
such a "European" language), these are absolutely not
postalveolar--pronouncing them so sounds utterly wrong and bad and awful.
The retroflexing causes all kinds of interesting crunchy effects on
surrounding vowels as well, which wouldn't occur if they were merely
postalveolar.

Cheers,
   Josh

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Josh Brandt-Young <vionau@...>
"After the tempest I behold, once more, the weasel."
(Mispronunciation of Ancient Greek)

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