Re: CHAT: ConScripts

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> 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.
The sort of person who's interested in this might think it's worth
noting that for me (and I basically categorically lack any "t"), the
vowel isn't /&/, it's /a:/, which would mean /kra:fts/ has five moras.
On the other hand, I don't know significant this is; I also have "acts"
and "axe" as homophones.
--
Tristan.

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