Re: Lateral Plosive
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 20:04 |
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On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:27:28AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Judging by Okrand's remarks (and the spelling itself), Klingon "tlh"
> is an *aspirated* dental affricate with lateral plosion, [tK)_h].
Well, OK, but all plosives are aspirated in Klingon, so such aspiration
is probably not phonemic. I have trouble pronouncing [tK)} without
aspiration, personally, but if you did so you'd just sound like a wimpy
Terran. :)
-Marcos
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