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Re: Lenition

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Monday, June 24, 2002, 21:15
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 23:57, John Cowan wrote:

> The only hard/soft terminology I am familiar with in vernacular speech > about English is hard=stop, soft=affricate, as in the so-called hard and > soft pronunciations of "c" and "g".
I would be quite happy to describe hard as unvoiced and soft as voiced. Another standard vernacular use is with 'a': /{/ is a 'hard a', /A:/ a 'soft' one (e.g. in words like 'fast', Americans pronounce the a hard, but we have a soft one). Tristan

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