Re: Consonantal length

Monkey God wrote:

>Well, I took Korean, and they're pretty darn glottalised. The doubling has
>progressed to the point where doubling ALSO requires glottalising the
>latter ... and boy, am I sure of this, because my teacher was a psycho
>linguist, a phonologist from hell. I love phonology, but boy did she
>confuse everyone in the class. And I don't mean to make fun of accents, but
>when your Korean teacher who barely speaks English tries to explain the
>sounds of Korean using words like 'fricative' and 'glottalisation,' things
>get a little kooky.
Yeah, that I could understand.  My French teacher in high school was the
opposite; she never really cared about phonetics.  Even her pronunciation
seemed really sloppy in hindsight.  (But she wasn't a native speaker, so
maybe I should give her a break.)

Danny  (I'm not a phonologist; I just play one on TV)


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