Re: THEORY: h huffnpuffery (was: RE: varia)
| From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 6, 2000, 20:31 |
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Yes, voiceless lateral approximants are phonemes in some languages; I
can't remember which ones but Ladgefoed mentions some; I think Tibetan
is one of them, so maybe Boudewijn can confirm this for us.
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Raymond Brown wrote:
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> >(Incidentally, voiceless l's which are approximants, not fricatives,
> >do
> >occur in some languages.
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> ....as phonemes? So I've been told; but they seem pretty rare. (Philip
> tells me the so-called voicless /l/ in Icelandic is, in fact, the voiceless
> lateral fricative).
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