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Re: Allophony

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, November 6, 1999, 17:35
Kristian Jensen wrote:
> /thi/ -> [tShi] > /ti/ -> [tSi]
Oh, aspirated affricates, lovely! :-) You could even do with k this: /khi/ -> /Chi/ (aspirated fricative) /ki/ -> /Ci/
> You also be inspired by a more Japanese-like model. > > /t/ -> /tj/
Except in Japanese, /tj/ is pronounced /tS/ -- "It has been postulated that, given an infinite number of monkeys bashing away at an infinite number of keyboards, we could eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this to be incorrect." - Anonymous http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor