Re: Work in progress - Phonology

Thomas R. Wier ghItlh:

:  Quoting Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>:
:
: > > Labiodental Fricative:  f, v
: > > Dental Fricative:  T, D
: > > Alveolar Nasal:  n', n
: > >             Stop:  t, d
: > >             Fricative:  s
: > >             Approximant:  r', r
: > >             Lateral:  l', l
: > > Palato-alveolar Fricative:  s
: >
: > How do you distinguish between alveolar and palato-alveolar then?
: > Also, is there any reason why those two plus velar nasal and
: > fricative do not distinguish voice?
:
: It's perhaps worth mentioning that English is very odd in
: distinguishing so many fricatives, both voiced and unvoiced
: at so many different places of articulation.  One less fricative
: in his system there makes it more typologically unremarkable.
: (Naturally, this should not prevent him from doing so, if he
: wishes.)

Exactly - I have so much unnormality with the voiceless nasals, so surely I
should have some normality in other areas.  And anyway, alveolar s is
comparatively rare, but is only in the language since it is produced in
non-speech sounds, and so turns up in some words.

<snip>

John.

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