Re: c-curl

John Cowan wrote:

>The mark of the curly-tail fricatives and affricates is that the tip of the
>tongue rests on the *lower* teeth, while the blade of the tongue approaches
>the region between the alveolar and the palatal parts of the mouth.
Exactly! This is the very sound we have in Swedish. In
Swedish terminology this is called the "tje-sound".

I tend to pronounce this a bit more like [S] instead of
[s\], but all my friends tell me I pronounce it wrong.
The difference is very small though. I also pronounce the
"sje-sound" [x] or rather the approximant version [M\], and
not the way it is usually described (which is in x-sampa
seems to be [x\], but with the lips involved somehow).
Although, that might be a question of age.

Blah, blah, blah... I'll shut up now.

||| daniel

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