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Re: Strange sounds

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 29, 2000, 11:51
Let's see,

Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...> wrote:

>Its called a (lamino-) denti-alveolar sound. I put 'lamino-' >in parenthesis because denti-alveolar sounds are always laminal.
BUT John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
>> How would you call it? > >"Palato-alveolar", or sometimes "alveolo-palatal", take >your choice.
I think Kristian may be right here, John, since his description looks more like what I described (the sound is really made with the teeth and the blade of the tongue -- there's contact with the alveola and the palatal ridge, but no sound produced *there*. Maybe you missed the important part of the description, that the tip of the tongue touches the *lower* teeth while the upper teeth press the blade. Anyway, thanks to you both -- now I know two different sounds instead of one! --Pablo Flores http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/draseleq.html