Re: Radical-Metathesis

On 9.2.2008 Mr Veoler wrote:
> Is it possible to order ALL consonants in a definite order, does,
> for example, various plosive stops have different sonority? Otherwise
> I may
> combine it with place of articulation or something...
>
No, but they have a hierarchy of salience.  I'm a bit foggy
on the details ATM, but can look them up tomorrow.

IIRC (which I might as well not) the order is
something like t - p - k for voiceless stops and
b - d -g for voiced stops. Vcl vs. vcd and stop vs.
fricative also vary in salience; thus k is more
salient than g, which is least salient of all stops.

This hierarchy also governs the relative frequency
of various sounds across vocabulary.


/BP 8^)>
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