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

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 23:46
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^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Truth, Sir, is a cow which will give [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull." -- Sam. Johnson (no rel. ;)