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Re: Harsh vs. Soft Sounds

From:Robert Wilson <han_solo55@...>
Date:Friday, August 29, 2003, 22:26
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:44:54 -0400 "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
writes:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:45:56PM -0400, Sebastian Adems wrote: > > Well, for instance, French would be considered soft, where as a > more > > guttural sounding language (can't think of anything right now, > maybe LotR > > Orc tongues?) > > You don't have to go that far afield. German is a pretty > harsh/guttural > language. English is somewhere more toward the middle thanks to > French > influence.
actually i'd consider french to be a harsh language. it sounds a little harsher than german to me. i think stops are usually less harsh then fricatives, voiced fricatives are usually less harsh than voiced ones, and any fric/voiced stop farther back than palatal except [k], [q] and [h] is harsh.
> -Mark
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