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Re: Heavy Metal Phonation

From:j_mach_wust <j_mach_wust@...>
Date:Thursday, July 15, 2004, 1:35
Hi all; I'm new, and already going off-topic... (hope it's not too bad).

Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> my 'queue' is often much more like [kC...] than [kj...]. But not > always.
To me, this seems to be a coarticulatory effect of the aspiration: [k_hj] -> [kC]. I believe that a similar effect may occur with [l] and [r\], e.g. in _place_: [p_hl] -> [pl_0] or [pK], or in German _Krieg_: [k_hR] -> [kx]. Philip Newton wrote:
> I don't think the question on whether [x] and [ç] are separate > phonemes has been definitively settled, but they may not be. > > They certainly feel very different to this German speaker,
An interesting case where the speakers' intuition doesn't match with the linguists' analysis. If we are to lable the phoneme, then I prefer /x/ to /C/, because, as was said, this is found in varieties that don't distinguish the two, and I suppose it's also historically correct. Those who don't want to decide on how to lable it use sometimes the Greek small letter khi. g_0ry@_^s: j. 'mach' wust

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