Re: Questions (mostly about phonemics)
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 21, 2007, 6:47 |
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On Jan 20, 2007, at 7:01 PM, MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 1/20/2007 5:38:39 PM Central Standard Time,
> leon_math@YAHOO.COM writes:
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>> After some thought,
>> it seems that pinyin /b d g z j zh/ are just unaspirated versions
>> of /p t k
>> c q ch/.
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> Exactly so.
I've wondered for a long time... in languages where the obstruents do
not have voicing distinctions, like Mandarin, don't the unaspirated
stops sometimes surface as voiced *allophones*?
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