Re: Infant Conphonology

Staving Andreas Johansson:
>Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:
>
> > Staving Andreas Johansson:
> > >Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
> > >
> > > > 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 . . .
> > >
> > >And people told me my sublimino-velar trill was weird ...
> > >
> > >                                                    Andreas
> >
> > What, a velar trill that subtly affects people's behaviour, even though
> > they aren't aware of it? That is wierd.
>
>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.
I remember the thread about the sublamino-velar trill - my contribution was
that a word incorporating it would have to mean "Help! I'm choking to death
on my own tongue!" However, the typo above (sublimino-velar) suggested an
alternative meaning.

Pete