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

On Saturday, February 7, 2004, at 11:05  AM, Ray Brown wrote:

> On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 10:21 AM, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>> I'm not clear how this differs, or if it differs,
>> from a voiced lateral affricate at the same POA, but abscence of
>> friction
>> could be a possibility.
>
> It did occur to me after writing the email that the |tl| in Nahuatl
> might
> denote this 'lateral
> 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.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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