Re: [QUESTION] Rounded sibilants?

Abel wrote:
<<
The other day I was trying some fancy pronunciations for a couple
consonants
(some not-so-fancy ones, too), only to be surprised by that fact that
both
my /s/ and my /z/ sound quite noticeably different when I round my
lips when
I pronounce them.

So, is there anything like rounded /s/ or /z/? I am hoping to use
this as a
phonemical distinction in some conlang. And what would be a good
symbol for
them? Perhaps, z-ring and s-ring? ;-)
 >>

Oh, yeah, tons of natlangs have them.  I think that's actually the
appropriate way to use the "w" diacritic in the IPA (different
from the consonant simply followed by "w").  I don't know
which English dialects it is, but several of them are supposed
to have [S_w] for "sh", but it certainly doesn't sound like "shw"
would (compare "schwa" and "shaw").

-David
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