Re: Half-Voiced Stops (was: Rotokas)

Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> There's a particular metathesised pronunciation of 'spaghetti' as
> 'basketti' which is no doubt an example of _something_, too..
I've heard "pas(k/gh)etti", too, which would tend to support Andreas'
thesis.  Personally, I'm not so sure that you *can* assign such a sound
to either phoneme when there's no contrast, and it doesn't fit the
prototype for either phoneme.