Re: ng vs w
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 30, 2003, 6:58 |
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alexandre lang wrote:
> Ah, then could your exceeding brilliancy tell me why the /w/ in the IPA
> chart isn't with the consonants?
Because it's a double-articulation. That is, it's produced at two
different places in the mouth simultaneously, specifically, there's
lip-rounding (labial) plus a velar constriction, thus it's labio-velar.
P.S., what kind of school project is this for?
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