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Re: transcription questions

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, December 13, 2002, 16:35
Joseph Fatula wrote:
(Blissett)
>> > "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. >>
(Moi)
>> "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/. >>
(snip) (JF)
>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.
That would be possible, I was simply going by what I actually encountered in a natlang. For intiial position, a more fricative pronunciation might be necessary, just to get across (make audible) the preaspiration in the flow of speech. It becomes a question of timing/onset of main articulation. Or possibly the main clue would be the unrelease of the (e.g.) [k]. I wonder if Blissett planned on having /ht, hp, htS?/ etc. as well. And /hb, hd, hg/ would be possible too, sounding rather like a suppressed gagging. Actually they're all rather interesting sounds.....!