Re: Lenition
| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 24, 2002, 21:15 |
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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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