Re: Mandarin aspirated and unaspirated initials

At 09:55 2002-06-28 -0400, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>Somebody prescribed the following method for
>identifying if you pronounced a stop correctly:
>
>Hold a piece of paper with one hand over your mouth, and pronounce "top"
>and "stop". In the former case, the puff of air from the aspiration will
>flutter the paper; in the latter case, it won't. (The 't' in "top" is
>aspirated; the 't' in "stop" isn't.) Now it's just a matter of trying to
>reproduce the 't' in "stop" without the 's'... :-)
IME a candle flame is preferable to a piece of paper, otherwise the process
is similar.

I used it to help Finnish speakers produce aspirated stops.



/BP 8^)>
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