Re: ng vs w

>From: Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: ng vs w
>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 00:57:06 -0600
>
>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?
>
>--
>"There's no such thing as 'cool'.  Everyone's just a big dork or nerd,
>you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." -
>overheard
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I don't know if you've heard about the international baccalaureate, but we
have to do a personal project for it, and i chose to do this.


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