Re: transcription questions

----- Original Message -----
  From: David Peterson
  To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
  Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:02 PM
  Subject: Re:       transcription questions


  Veslerel:

  <<"tth". This is a lot like [T], but has a kind of hissing / daffy-duck
  quality to it.>>

 Dental [s]. In IPA that's an /s/ with a tooth under it (like a box with no
bottom). The difference is that with [T] you use the blade of your tongue,
whereas with the sound you describe, it's the tip, no? The [s] has tip of
tongue coded into it.

  -David




 Hmm. I think that's pretty close, although it's more than the tip, and when I
practice the sound, the difference seems to have more to do with what the
tongue is doing than with where it is. When I make a "th" in English (either
type), the contact of my tongue against my teeth is relatively brief. In the
[tth] sound, the contact lingers, and the air is being pushed out by a movement
of the tongue, which is what is making the hissing sound after the initial
"th". How would I write that, anyway? [s_d]?