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Re: Cat phonemes

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Date:Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 15:17
> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Lars Finsen > Den 28. nov. 2007 kl. 13.49 skreiv Mark J. Reed: > > > Hissing may be /h/ phonemically, but it's surely realized as
[x:] or
> > [X:] or [C:] or something like that. [h] is far too tame > (and not very > > hissy). > > Ah yes, I forgot about that. I've never heard Klumpen, my cat, > hissing. We are very good buddies. (In fact he's coming here right
> now.) But no doubt there's a good deal of it when he's outside.
Mine don't hiss at me, but there are personality conflicts among them so they are known to hiss at each other.