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Re: Heavy Metal Phonation

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 10:26
Philip Newton wrote:

>David wrote: > > >>So it wasn't, "Let's go [Cit]!", it was >>absolutely, "Let's go [Cyt]!" >> >> > >Heck, many anglophones who learn German aren't even aware of the fact >that they have [C] in their phonetic (though not phonemic) inventory! > > >
I don't.
>They usually substitute [S] or [k] instead, but I think that more >teachers of German should make students aware of the fact that they >may have the required phone e.g. in |huge| [CjudZ] >
My 'huge' is definitely [hju:dZ] - [Cju:dZ] sounds rather old-fashioned. And I substitute [x] for [C](and [X] for [x], though not nearly as consistently), which I'm told occurs in some dialects.
>and just have to >practise making it in other contexts as well. (That is, to >phonemicise(?) that allophone.) > >
Well, it's isn't phonemic in German, is it? It's simply /x/ after front vowels.

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