Re: Lateral Plosive

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:13:13PM -0000, caeruleancentaur wrote:
> When I read "lateral plosive," my first thought was of that sound
> written as "tl" in the Aztec language, e.g., QuetzalcoaTL.  The
> plosiveness of the T followed by the lateral release of the L.  Sound
> correct?  Of course, TL is unvoiced.  There could be a voiced variant
> DL.  Maybe it's an affricate, though.
It is an affricate, written [tK)] in CXS, though the [t] is probably
prelateralized.

For those who might not know (there seem to be newcomers on the list
lately; welcome!), that is the same sound as the Klingon
phone spelled |tlh|, and just the tail part of it without the [t]
(the [K] in CXS) is the pronunciation of |ll| in Welsh.


-Marcos

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