| From: | Muke Tever <muke@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 4, 2009, 19:51 |
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:16:06 -0600, Linvi Charles <linvi.charles@...> wrote:> Is it just me or does the unaspirated /t/ (like in s*t*op) sound like the > /d/ (like in *d*ead)?It'll do that because the only difference is voicing, and as (I assume you are) an English speaker your phonology distinguishes voiceless stops from voiced stops by both voicing and aspiration--[t] is thus perceived as close to /d/ by virtue of being unaspirated, and different from, i.e. not, /t_h/ for the same reason. The tendency to hear [t] as /d/ has led some to suggest that it's aspiration, not voicing, that is the salient factor in distinguishing the stop series in English. *Muke! -- http://frath.net/
| Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |