Re: CHAT: ConScripts

caeruleancentaur skrev:
>> Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
>
>> Of course people do that all the time in normal allegro
>> speech, in all languages.
>
> I'm sure that's meant as a generalization, but just to set the record
> straight, I always pronounce the /t/ in "crafts" and in "craftsman" no
> matter how rapidly I'm speaking.  I just can't imagine saying "crafs."
The thing is that people *think* they are pronouncing
'everything' all the time, because our brains are good
at filling in the 'missing' parts.  One thing that proves
this is not so is what children produce extrapolating from
adults' input.  There is no need to get prescriptivist
or normativist about the way human speech and speech
perception works. Pronouncing [kr&fs] isn't sloppy in
any way, it's just what /kr&fts/ becomes at normal
speech rates due to the motoric limitations of the
speech organs.


/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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