Re: CHAT: Japanese "sh" (was: Re: CHAT: F.L.O.E.S.)

At 00:14 4.3.2004, Mark J. Reed wrote:

>Except that now I'm confused.   :)
Easy. English [S] is palatoalveolar,
Japanese [s\] is alveopalatal,
German [C] is dorsomediopalatal.

So the Japanese sound (found also i.a.
in Swedish and Polish) falls between
the English and German sounds both
articulatorily and acoustically.

IIANM Japanese has [C] as well in
_hi_ or _hya_.  OTOH Swedes happily
use [s\] for [C] when speaking German.

Don't know about the French sound.


/BP 8^)
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