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Re: Lateral Plosive

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 14:27
Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> 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|,
Judging by Okrand's remarks (and the spelling itself), Klingon "tlh" is an *aspirated* dental affricate with lateral plosion, [tK)_h]. -- XQuery Blueberry DOM John Cowan Entity parser dot-com jcowan@reutershealth.com Abstract schemata http://www.reutershealth.com XPointer errata http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Infoset Unicode BOM --Richard Tobin

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