Re: transcription questions

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: transcription questions


>  >   "hk". This is a sound made by exhaling and quickly stopping the flow
of
> air by pressing the rear of the tongue to the roof of the mouth. It isn't
> voiced and it isn't a clicking sound, and I'm not sure how to transcribe
it.
>
> "hk" - preaspirated.  I assume it has to follow a vowel, otherwise you
might
> have either articulatory difficulties, or analytical difficulties (is the
> aspiration part of the preceding consonant or of the -k?).  I've read the
> various responses to this-- personally I don't get any friction (no [hxk]
> etc.), though I can if I'm sloppy..  The one language I know of that has
> (non-phonemic) preaspirates, has them intervocallically, in the env
> "stressed V____unstressed V", e.g. (fake data) ['so(h)pa, 'sa(h)ka] /sopa,
> saka/.
>
> Assuming it has to follow a vowel, then the "h" portion could be
> represented, if necessary, as a period of voiceless offset to the vowel.
> How this would look in SAMPA I have no idea. In a quick-and-dirty field
> situation, it would be enough to write a superscript h before the
consonant.

I don't know if this is what the original question was regarding, but the
sound I pictured with "hk" could easily start a word, not necessarily being
after any consonant or vowel.

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