Re: Chinese Dialect Question

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: Chinese Dialect Question


> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:50:32PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> > > It may come out as [h] or as something
> > > between [x] and [S] (like German whichever-ch-laut-isn't /x/), but
> > > never [j].
> >
> > That's [C].  A palatal fricative, I believe.
>
> That's it.  Thanks.  And [x] is ach-laut and [C] is ich-laut, right?
Yeah.

> > Something odd.  I've noticed my Spanish teacher pronounce initial /t/ as
> > [T].  The Spanish she speaks, I believe, is Chilean.  Anything know
about
> > this?
>
> Hm.  I don't think I've ever spoken with a Chilean, so I don't know
> if that's typical or not.  Is it really a [T], or is it just an
> interdental [t]?  I've encountered the latter a lot, but not the former.
Well, I'm not quite sure.  I'm sure I heard a fricative, though.

> -Mark
>