Re: Phonetics Question
| From: | Douglas Koller <laokou@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 5, 1999, 9:17 |
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Tom Wier wrote:
> Steg Belsky wrote:
> > 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.
Curly-tail c (voiceless aleolo-palatal fricative)? To my ear, it sounds
akin to the "ch" in German "ich" (which would be c-cedilla, no?), but a
little further forward.
Kou