Re: Sights and sounds of Tirèlhat
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 2, 2001, 2:16 |
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 20:47:43 EDT, David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
wrote:
> Nice website and alphabet. :) I often wished I knew how to make such
>sites so I could show off my wares...
> Two questions/comments:
> (1) In the lower section (where you describe the sounds and give
>downloadable examples), there were an awful lot of question marks in
>brackets, most notably after all the stops (e.g., [d?] and [t?]). Is this
>some sort of glitch, or do all these things really have glottal stops after
>them? And also, characters like [g] and [G] (gamma) didn't show up at all,
>but just showed up as [?].
You might try the Thryomanes font (follow the small print at the top of the
page), although I don't have any idea if it works with a Mac. Any Unicode
font that includes the IPA symbols will do.
> (2) That voiced lateral fricative sure sounded suspiciously a lot like a
>voiced alveolar lateral approximant to me. ;)
I'm thinking I might have used a little too much noise reduction on the
sound samples. :-) Listen closely, the fricative noise is there.
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