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Re: phi-theta [was: Hellenish oddities]

From:Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
Date:Thursday, November 23, 2000, 7:29
On 23 Nov, Nik Taylor wrote:

>Fakatinál kúsal Láiman Bláun (Raymond Brown): >> Yes, of course you do. [pt_h] would be pretty difficult IMO, holding the >> aspiration off till the second plosive. > >Hunh? I find [pt_h] quite easy, especially if it's intervocalic, while >[p_ht_h] sounds like too many aspirations. > >> Er, yes. In fact, being an anglophone and thus normally aspirating
initial
>> voiceless plosives, [p_ht_h] is the easy one. It's the [pt], as in the >> colloquial French pronunciation of "p'tit" that's the awkward one!
And then there's always the unaspirated [p] in the Hebrew word-initial cluster [pg]. Anglo-accented Hebrew is notorious for turning something like [pgiSa] (= "meeting"; stress on [Sa]) into [p_hIgijSa:] (aspiration added to [p]; all syllables with equal stress). Dan Sulani -------------------------------------------------------------------- likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a. A word is an awesome thing.