Re: Aspirated stops vs. fricatives (was Re: Tit'xka (Pretty Long Post))

Hello Eric,

=9Croda, 30 grudnia 1998, you wrote:

EC> Sheets, Jeff wrote:
>> Okay.  I mean /x/.  I also am not familiar with any difference between=
 your
>> /k_h/ and /k/.  If they are allophones in English, I'm incapable of he=
aring
>> the difference.  E.G. I see no difference between the k in kill and ck=
 in
>> pack.
EC> Aspiration is simply a puff of air after a sound. Usually in English,
EC> unvoiced stops are aspirated except when they come after /s/; thus
EC> "speak" is [spik], whereas "peak" is [p_hik]. It's hard at first to
EC> hear the difference, but you can feel the puff of air by putting your
EC> hand in front of your mouth while saying the words. You can feel air
EC> hitting it when you say "peak" but not "speak."

hmmm....
i've read somewhere that unvoiced stops are aspirated only in
word-initial position...

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