Re: half voiced (was: Digest Deux)

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:12:40 +0100 Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
> writes:
> > Try "bag" vs "back" > [b&:g] vs [b&k].
> > Or "lab" vs "lap" > [l&:b] vs [l&p].
> >
> > -kristian- 8)
> >
> -
>
> Or of course in my dialect:
> [be@g] vs [b&k]
> [le@b] vs [l&p]
>

Or in mine:

[b&:Ig*] vs [b&@k]

[l&@b*] vs [l&@p]

* = unreleased stop. And it is, when it's at the end of a sentence:

[Itsn=Db&:Ig*] vs [Itsn=Db&@k]

[Sizm=@l&@b*] vs [Sizm=@l&@p]

Elsewhere, it's a normal voiced stop:

[Db&:Ig@zbIg*]

[Dl&@b@zbIg*]

Note that the : is half-long here.

---frank