Re: Infant Conphonology

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:
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>>Staving Andreas Johansson:
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>>>Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
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>>>>My son, age 6 months, seems to be a fertile source of new phones,
>>>>unrecognized by the IPA.  Most recently I've noticed a
>>>>bilabio-latero-velar affricate, which I guess would be [bl)G)], though I
>>>>normally just transcribe it as "blg".  It occurs in his favorite
>>>>exclamation, [bl)G)a:], though his normal conversational register so far
>>>>consists solely of [ba] repeated over and over . . .
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>>>And people told me my sublimino-velar trill was weird ...
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>>>                                                   Andreas
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>>What, a velar trill that subtly affects people's behaviour, even though
>>they aren't aware of it? That is wierd.
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>I'm not quite sure what you mean. The people in question were posters on this
>list - whom one might suspect of being acquainted with odd sounds - the last
>time I mentioned that phone. I can't do it naturally enough to insert it into
>connected speech, so I've not been able to test how linguistically unaware
>people would react to it.
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I think he was making fun of a typo of yours.  'sublimino-'(as in
subliminal), as opposed to 'sublamino-'.