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Re: markjjones@HOTMAIL.COM

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, March 6, 2005, 21:08
On Mar 6, 2005, at 11:02 PM, Steven Williams wrote:
> --- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> schrieb: >> On Mar 6, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Steven Williams wrote: >>> Indeed, [D] and [D_g] sound almost identical. I >>> can't tell the difference myself, if it weren't >>> for the effect that the emphatics have on vowels.
>> /D/ and /D_g/ sound very distinct to me. They also >> feel very different when i pronounce them.
> Am I doing it wrong, then? I'm pronouncing a [D], but > I'm raising the back part of my tongue to the velum, > the sides of my tongue touching my teeth. Very > difficult articulation for me to make; I'm also trying > to imitate as best I can sound samples I find on the > Internet, since I don't know any native Arabic > speakers personally to ask them for pointers.
Noooo.... You want _pharyngealization_, not _velarization_! Pull the back part of your tongue *down and back*! It's like a coarticulated |`ayin| pharyngeal approximant/fricative. That explains why you were using the "velarized" diacritic... Think /D_?\/, not /D_G/. -Stephen (Steg) "only the extremes are logical; but they are absurd." ~ samuel butler

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