Re: Tit'xka (Pretty Long Post)

> Sheets, Jeff wrote:
> > Well, I had thought it represented German ch!  It is an aspirated k.
> I'm
> > using the Kirshenbaum(sp?) ASCII IPA.  th in thin is /T/ th in these is
> /D/
> > sh in shin is /S/ and I had thought that ch in bach was /K/.  Perhaps
> you
> > are using a different transcription system?  maybe SAMPA?
>
> Ah!  Yes, I use SAMPA.  In SAMPA, aspirated k is /k_h/, the underscore
> indicates superscripts.  In that case, _k_ in "kill" is an example.  If
> you intended it to be identical to German _ch_ of Bach, then /x/
> would've been the symbol in SAMPA, and, I think, Kirshenbaum.
>
Okay.  I mean /x/.  I also am not familiar with any difference between your
/k_h/ and /k/.  If they are allophones in English, I'm incapable of hearing
the difference.  E.G. I see no difference between the k in kill and ck in
pack.