Re: help! phonology...& addendum

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Irina Rempt wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > I'm more worried about /d/ and /t/ requiring me to add /g/.  I just don't
> > *like* the sound.  <grimace>  Because if I have a voiced version of a
> > stop, I should have it for all stops, right...?
>
> Dutch has /t/, /d/, /p/, /b/, /k/ and also /x/, but not /g/.  You're
> not *required* to have anything (well, you must have *something*, of
> course, or you're left without a language :-)
Thanks.  :-)

Well, I guess you could go to visual phonology...there's a book in the
Campus Store's linguistics section called _The Geometry of Visual
Phonology_.  It looks fascinating but I know nothing about signed
languages and I've still frozen acquisitions.  I may try to get it
through interlibrary loan sometime, though.  =^)

YHL