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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, July 22, 2004, 10:25
Quoting j_mach_wust <j_mach_wust@...>:

> FWIK, the Swiss/Alemannic opposition of fortis and lenis is the same > as in Finnish, even though the Alemannic opposition is represented as > [d_0] vs. [t(:)], whereas the Finnish isn't called a fortis-lenis > opposition and is represented as [t] vs. [t:].
Hm. I hear Finnish 't' as /t/, not /d/, which I'd expect if it were a dental or alveolar voiceless non-aspirated lenis stop. I guess it might be not lenis enough. Andreas

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