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Re: More Ere:tas: The fable of the North Wind and the Sun

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 14:09
En réponse à Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>:

> > I still don't really get it --- my Danish phonemes are interfering. > /{/ ~ /a/ ~ /A/ are allophones for me, with /A/ in rhotic and velar > environments, and otherwise /{/ as long and /a/ as short. > > So I know how produce all three sounds, but not in free variation, and > I'm hard put to distinguish between them in languages where they do > vary freely. >
I said: "understand", I never said: "reproduce", let alone in everyday speech. :)))) I often have a hard time hearing the two sounds apart, and if I can pronounce them in isolation, in normal speech I cannot. "Cat" is still [kat] for me (yes, I usually don't aspirate my stops at the beginning of words. Sorry to be French :))) ). Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.