Re: Some natlang questions?

Danny Wier wrote:
>From: "Lars Henrik Mathiesen"
>
>| Are these (/ti/, /di/, etc.) really the phonemic analyses, or just the
>| systematic values of the kana?
>
>I used the wrong symbol; I forgot how to indicate transliteration.  Those
>are
>the systematic values, rather than the traditional romanization, again
>"chi",
>"ji", "shi", and for <tu>, "tsu", and for <hu>, "fu".
>
>| To sidetrack a little --- Wells waffles a little on the values of the
>| Mandarin Chinese phonemes that are written as <x q j> in Pinyin. What
>| would they be in IPA?
>
>The majority of descriptions I've seen give the c-curl for <x>, the t +
>c-curl
>for <j>, and the t + c-curl + superscript h for <q>.  (Indicentally,
>c-curl,
>z-curl, t + c-curl and d + z-curl are found in Polish.)
What are these "curls"? Is c-curl = c-cedilla?

                                            Andreas
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