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Re: laterals (was: Pharingials, /l/ vs. /r/ in Southeast Asia)

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 6:27
On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 03:17 PM, Dirk Elzinga wrote:

> On Saturday, February 7, 2004, at 11:05 AM, Ray Brown wrote:
[snip]
>> plosive'. I'd always understood it to be a lateral affricate, i.e. >> [tK]. >> But then I recalled that >> we anglophones readily substitute a palatal affricate [tS] for the >> palatal >> plosive [c] in languages >> like Malay /Indonesian. Am I guilty of the same 'slackness' with >> regard to >> Nahuatl's |tl|? > > I don't think so. All modern Nahuatl dialects have /tK/ for this > affricate, so it seems most likely that the classical language (ca 1520 > AD) had this sound as well.
Thanks - nice to have that confirmed. So I've been saying it right all along :) ========================================================================= On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 04:39 PM, Joe wrote: [snip]
> When I try to do a plosive in the same position as [tK], it sounds > absolutely nothing like [tK]....
Quite so. When I attempt to pronounce it with just plosion and no friction in the release of the stop, the result sounds as tho some one's trying to gag me - as you say, nothing like [tK]. So I'm still puzzled by by Javier's "lateral plosive". What is it? Ray =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com (home) raymond.brown@kingston-college.ac.uk (work) =============================================== "A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language." J.G. Hamann, 1760