Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:59:00 +0200, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-
> conlang@NVG.ORG> wrote:
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>>A difference between English and French unvoiced stops is that the
>>English (heck, "germanic" in general) ones are aspirated most places
>>(superscript h is the diacritic).
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> Germanic in general? This is not true: We Alemannic people at least don't
> aspirate the stops generally (well, there's distinctive aspiration, if you
> like, but it uses to be analysed as compound phonemes). I don't know about
> Skandinavian.
Scandinavian languages generally aspirate /ptk/, but Dutch doesn't.
Likewise Scandinavian /bdg/ are not voiced in all positions or all
dialects, but Dutch /bd/ must always be voiced.

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