Re: "Transferral" verb form in LC-01
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 27, 2002, 6:39 |
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En réponse à Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>:
>
> Aren't voicing and aspiration just basically the same thing, though?
Well, I don't see how adding a puff of air or vibrating vocal chords can be
compared at all.
> To
> do with when the voice is 'switched on'---if it's before the end of
> the
> consonant, it's voiced, if it's at the end (+/-20 ms) of it, it's
> unvoiced, and if it's after, it's voiced?
>
"Aspirated" you mean for the last one I suppose. I disagree. Aspiration does
require a special puff of air, at least I heard when listening carefully to
native English people. It's more than just the position of voicing.
> And how about a fortis/lenis distinction---I understand English
> unvoiced
> stops are fortis, voiced are lenis (and that this, not voice or
> aspiration, is what causes the distinction). Although I have no idea
> what it means.
>
Nobody really does. But as far as I know French doesn't have a fortis/lenis
distinction.
Christophe.
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