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Re: Borrowing a word

From:Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>
Date:Thursday, August 21, 2003, 14:41
Hello,

> That aside, [f] and [x] are supposed to be quite similar > accoustically (I > guess my brain's damaged for having those both phonemic in my > native language - they sound perfectly different to me).
But if you look at a spectrogram, they only differ in that [x] has a bit more noise around where the neighbouring vowels have the formants, and very slightly in the overall amount of energy. Pavel -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru Nid byd, byd heb wybodaeth --Welsh saying

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