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Re: new(?) phoneme discovered

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Friday, March 10, 2006, 22:43
Paul Bennett wrote:
> >For bonus points: What's your proudest moment in phonology / phonological > >system design?
Gwr "ll" a retroflexed d with lateral release. Would that be [d`_l] ?? AFAIK it doesn't occur in a natlang...though it could easily be mis-heard for Engl. /gl-/ as in "glue". It's the voiced counterpart of "tr" ([t`s`] I think), which does occur IINM in Vietnamese.