Re: Chinese Dialect Question

JS Bangs wrote:
> p, t, k, b, d, g are usually equal to their phonetic values, or differ
> only non-distinctively. E.g. English {p} often represents [p_h], but
> aspiration isn't distinctive in English, and Spanish {b} represents [B],
> but [B] and [b] are allophones in Spanish.
{g} is variable.  In English, it's generally /g/ or /dZ/ or sometimes
/Z/.  In Spanish it can be /g/ (or [G], but that's an allphone) or /x/.
In Old English, it could be /j/

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