Re: Phonetics Question

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:26:05 -0500 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
>Steg Belsky wrote:
>> What is this Chinese {x} sound, phonetically?  Does it have an IPA
>> symbol?
>Yes: U+0255, LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CURL.  You can see it (and
>other
>IPA characters) at
>http://charts.unicode.org/Unicode.charts/normal/U0250.html , first
>column, sixth row.
Thanks!  I looked on my IPA chart that i got from the IPA website, but it
doesn't seem to have it....i'll go look on the website you gave as soon
as i can get the dial-up working properly again (a few minutes).  I may
find this out when i look, but do you know what the affricative and
voiced equivalents of it are?

Okay, i just looked and am adding this to the message....
I found the curled C, and i also saw a curled Z, curled tc ligature and
curled dz ligature....are there symbols for the other ones?  and which
are these, exactly?

C-curl = voiceless alveolar-palatal fricative ; chinese {x}
Z-curl = voiced alveolar-palatal fricative
TC-curl = affricate of C-curl ?
DZ-curl = affricate of Z-curl ?

What are the "humped-up-tounge-with-tip-below-and-behind-lower-teeth"
equivalents of plain /s/ and /z/, then, if these are the equivalents of
/S/ and /Z/ ?

Thanks to everyone who answered,

-Stephen (Steg)

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