Re: lingual point of articulation, only lingual

--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

> Or maybe because it takes a long time to prepare the
> tongue for that sound?  Let's call that phone [$].
> Now pronounce [$u$a$sta], please.
It's kinda hard to make a decent alveolar articulation
for me if I roll my tongue. Rolled-up as it is, it's
sort of hard to move around in the mouth, and all I
can manage with the tip of the tongue, plosive-wise,
are dental and labiolingual plosives. Alveolar
plosives come out as something like weak fricatives,
approximants or laterals...

I can easily velarize sounds, though, since the dorsum
of the tongue is very much free to do as it pleases.
We've just discovered a new class of phonemes! A
tentative list of phonemes, at least those I can
produce easily enough to plausibly use in speech (for
simplicity's sake, I'll leave out the voiced variants
of these sounds):

[$t_N]
[$T_N] (it's hard to differentiate this from [$K_N])
[$t]
[$t_G]
[$T]
[$T_G]
[$s]
[$s_G]
[$l]
[$L]
[$K]
[$K_G]

(so far, this sort of reminds me of a Semiticlang with
a really bad salt blister on the tongue :)


	

	
		
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