Re: Kjaginic: 8 points of articulation

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:20:39 -0400, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

>I still need to figure out how the possible points of articulation can
>be assigned to these shapes. There could be some flexibility depending
>on language, but one possibility would be something like this:
>
>column 1: bilabial, labiodental
>column 2: dental
>column 3: alveolar
>column 4: post-alveolar, retroflex
>column 5: palatal
>column 6: velar
>column 7: uvular, pharyngeal
>column 8: epiglottal, glottal
Hm.  Of those POAs, you've split up one of the two pairs (bilabial and
labiodental being the other) I think of as most similar, namely pharyngeal
vs. epiglottal.  AIUI epiglottals are most of the things we used to think
were pharygeals before epiglottals were widely known of; in any case,
they're similar.

Dental and alveolar are pretty similar too.  Ah well, I suppose you have a /T/.

Alex

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