Re: Status of Italian rising

Jeff Jones wrote:
> I don't understand why linguists do some things either!
> Aren't approximants vocoids? (well, I know *lateral* approximants have been
> considered to be non-vocoids (I assume that's what's meant by "contoid"),
> but this has never made sense to me from the purely phonetic viewpoint,
> either acoustically or in terms of articulation.)
Vocoid and contoid, AFAIK, are language-dependant.  So, /l/ is, in most
languages, a contoid, because it acts as a consonant, but in some
language (such as English) it may be a vocoid as well.

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