Re: Questions on Proto-Indo-European

Sorry for being a "speech racist"; I'm aware of the
fact that sounds not learned are hard to distinguish,
but it just seemed like a small thing to me.
-qr


--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> Joe scripsit:
> >
> > On Saturday 11 January 2003 10:49 pm, Nik Taylor
> wrote:
> > > Joe wrote:
> > > > *bh is /b/ pronounced lightly blowing air
> through your lips, and the
> > > > same applies to the others...
> > >
> > > Actually, it represents the so-called "voiced
> aspirates", which are
> > > essentially breathy voice following the stop.
> >
> > Um...in voiced aspirates, the aspiration is
> voiced, right?
>
> Yup, and the vowel is breathy.  But the alternative
> pronunciation
> gives written bh dh gh the sounds [b d g], in which
> case written b d g
> is [p' t' k'], voiceless ejectives.
>
> --
> John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com
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> was through more than
> two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and
> so it is today.
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