Re: Two questions about Esperanto
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 15, 2004, 19:24 |
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:35:00 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> (I've got a sketch of German phonology that lists /x/ and /r/ as a
> voiceless/voiced fricative pair along with /f/~/v/ and /s/~/z/.)
That's more or less what it feels like to me, though my /x/ and /r/
don't feel uvular to me - at least, they're not as far back as when I
try to make a [q]. But they're definitely further back than my /k/ and
/g/.
On the other hand, what I think of as [X] may be [X\] already -
pharyngeal instead of uvular. I don't know. Maybe my /x/ *is* [X], not
[x].
So I'm not sure whether my /x/ and /r/ are [x] and [G] or [X] and [R],
but listing them as a voiceless-voiced pair sounds about right.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>