Re: Phonetics Question
| From: | John Fisher <john@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 5, 1999, 15:29 |
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In message <3691D291.CA9A33A7@...>, Tom Wier
<artabanos@...> writes
>Steg Belsky wrote:
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>> What is this Chinese {x} sound, phonetically? Does it have an IPA
>> symbol?
>
>I may be really wrong on this, but I think I remember it as the nonretroflex
>version of "sh", which is a postalveolar voiceless fricative. At least that's
>what I think the local Sinicist at UT said -- might be wrong.
The IPA symbol is a c with a loop at the bottom. Don't know how to
ASCII-ise that...
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