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Re: lingual point of articulation, only lingual

From:Steven Williams <feurieaux@...>
Date:Friday, August 26, 2005, 14:21
--- 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 :) ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de

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