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Re: THEORY: Articulatory phonetics (was Re: THEORY: unergative)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Monday, February 23, 2004, 2:24
In a message dated 2004:02:22 07:32:43 PM, hmiller@IO.COM writes:

>[...]Basically, listen to as >many languages as you can find samples of. Every language has its own >sounds, and even something as basic as "t" is pronounced differently >from one language to another.
IMMostHO, the sounds in contact languages - pidgins and creoles - are some of the most fascinating and eclectic (::nudge-nudge, wink-wink:: eclectic like Eklektu, ::thumbs up, American-style, not Hong Kong::: hehe). Example: the strangely, juicy sound 'tween /s/ and /dZ/ as written _s_ in Tok Pisin...excuse my synaesthesia...but some languages jus' have some mighty tasty licks ::drools licks lips::
>[...] But this is getting to be a lengthy post as it is, so I'll get back to >these later.
*argh*... and ya were doin' a great job just gettin' started too . . . --- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* Hang Binary,baby...--- Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang) Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode, orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap... ...languages are "naturally evolved wild systems... So language does not impose order on a chaotic universe, but reflects its own wildness back." - Gary Snyder "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" - a chapter on pidgins & creoles, John McWhorter, _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_ = ¡ gw'araa legooset caacaa ! ¡ reez'arvaa. saalvaa. reecue. scoopaa-goomee en reezijcloo ! = [Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!]