Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)
| From: | michael poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 12, 2003, 20:24 |
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I've never heard /t/ + /S/ as /tS/. Compare (pardon the indelicate example!)
"catch it" with "cat shit". A plus for that version of the IPA that
transliterates /tS/ as c-hacek, emphasising the fact that this is one
phoneme, not two.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "JS Bangs" <jaspax@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Phonetics (IPA)
> > 1. Why are the sounds 'ch' and 'j' transcribed as [tsh] and [dzh] in
> > phonetic alphabets, when neither of these sounds are heard in
> > pronunciation?
>
> Oh, but they are. Try just saying [t] + [S], and see if you don't get
> something identical to normal[*] English "ch". Likewise with [dZ]--the
> affricates are identical to the clusters.
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