Re: Phonology and Questions
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 6, 2000, 23:54 |
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Doug Ball wrote:
> Navajo has voiceless unaspirated, voiceless aspirated, and ejective
I'm sorry, once again I misstated my objection. What's (AFAIK)
unprecedented is having a twoway contrast including ejective, that is,
having no contrast in the VOT continuum with ejectives.
Aspirated/unaspirated is a distinction on the VOT continuum.
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