Re: Development of Consemitic Bilabial Emphatic
| From: | Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 16, 2003, 2:56 |
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At 02:30 16/07/03, you wrote:
> --- Steg Belsky wrote:
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> > It'd go soemthing like:
> > 1. /K'/ merges into /T'/ (similarly, /K/ merges into /T/)
> > 2. /T'/ becomes labiodental (tongue extends)
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>Tongue extends to give labiodental? Labiodentals don't have tongue
>extension, do they? That sounds more like linguolabial...
Do linguolabials occur in natlangs? I've not come across them, nor a
reference to how to represent them, say, in IPA, but they seem very easy to
pronounce and quite distinctive-sounding, so it surprises me.
Ian
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