Re: markjjones@HOTMAIL.COM
| From: | Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 6, 2005, 21:16 |
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--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> schrieb:
> On Mar 6, 2005, at 11:02 PM, Steven Williams wrote:
> > 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/.
Ooh, _much_ easier. Thanks.
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