Re: /k/ in i.t.a.
| From: | Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 12, 2004, 21:24 |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:58:24 -0500, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>Fronting of velars before front V is also seen in the German ach-laut vs.
>ich-laut; both sounds presumably represent the same _phoneme_ /x/ though
>they are phonetically quite distinct.
No, they don't represent the same. Exclusively "ch" in "Bach" represents
/x/, while "ch" in "ich" always represents /C/.
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Pascal A. Kramm, author of Choton
official Choton homepage:
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