Re: Consonantal length

Danny wrote: "Except Korean doesn't have retroflexes."

I didn't say they did.

"The "emphatic" consonants you speak of are <p'>, <t'>, <s'>, <c'> and <k'>
(<c> means /tS/).  From what I read, they're not exactly glottalized (I'm
sure it's pretty acceptable to pronounce them as such), but more "tensed",
whereas <p>, <t>, <s>, <c> and <k> are "lax".  You also have aspirated
stops <ph>, <th>, <ch> and <kh>.  I'm not sure which are commonly
transliterated as doubles (<pp>, <tt> etc.)."

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.


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