Re: transcription questions

> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:07:38PM -0500, lblissett wrote:
> >
> > >     "tth". This is a lot like [T], but has a kind of hissing /
> daffy-duck
> > > quality to it.
> >
> > Is this by any chance produced with the tongue protruding between the
> lips?
> > That's what I get when I try to talk Daffy Duck.
>
>
>       Not that far -- the front of the tongue is pressed firmly against
the
> back of the teeth. It hissy, but not very spitty.

To me, that sounds like a good description of the voiceless lateral
fricative /K/.  In IPA, it's an l with a curly belt around the middle.
It's the sound of |ll| in Welsh and appears in Aztec and Klingon as
an affricate /tK/.  ;-)


-- Christian Thalmann

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