Re: Harsh vs. Soft Sounds

Its subjective... perhaps the ratio between the occurance of soft sounds
(ie vowels, approximants, fricatives) versus hard sounds (stops,
affricates...) in the spoken language? Only since of course it varies on
what you say when you're counting you'd need to record a lot of
conversational material to get any kind of realistic estimate.... also,
you'd need a lot of patience to do the counting.

>Sebastian Adems wrote:
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>>SebastianAdems:
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>>Is there any preference as to whether or not a language is harshly or
>>softly spoken? I know I prefer harsh, but is there a ratio as to which
>>languages in the world are soft and which are harsh?
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>I'm not even sure how you'd go about finding such a ratio.  How would
>you define "harsh" and "soft"?
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