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From:Steven Williams <feurieaux@...>
Date:Thursday, May 15, 2003, 17:01
Nik Taylor hat geschrieben:

> I'm originally from Florida myself. What part of Florida are you from? I > grew > up in Pensacola. I'm currently living in Kansas, which I greatly > prefer to Florida. :-)
I live roughly equidistant from Tampa-St. Petersburg, Orlando and Ocala. Piddly town called Bushnell. I got back from a five-month stay in Fairfield, California no more than two months ago. I loved it there; if, in later life, I get a job offer on the west coast, I'm gonna pack my bags in a heartbeat. Christophe Grandsire hat geschrieben:
> Emphatic consonants? Like the Arabic ones? Interestingly, my Maggel > also has > emphatic consonants, but I call them "tensed", because the > emphasis on them > is realised as strong muscle tension in the whole > mouth when pronouncing them. Not quite like the Arabic emphatics, > but not too far either ;)) .
I'm not too sure on the phonetic status of the emphatics in my language, but they sure sound a bit like they're velarized/pharyngealized, like the Arabic. That's the symbol I use in transcription, anyways. The emphatics are [t_G], [d_G], [s_G] and [z_G], plus a tentative opposition between [h\] and [X\]--I treat the glottals and pharyngeals as an opposition between a 'sharp', 'breathy' and 'rough' onset, where 'sharp' is [?], 'breathy' is [h\] and 'rough' is [X\]. I originally wanted [r_G], but I couldn't pronounce it well enough to distinguish between it and plain [r]. Then we'd have a complete opposition between the emphatic alveolars (actually, [t] and [d] are [t_d] and [d_d], but let's not split hairs) and the plain alveolars. I like to treat [r] as a vowel anyways. Anyways, once I get the time, energy and motivation (summer vacation's starting up soon for us high school students--I'll have all three, no problem), I'll either post a description of my language here or make a webpage and post the link here. --------------------------------- Gesendet von http://mail.yahoo.de. WAHNSINN! Nur 1x anmelden und dann vollautomatisch an bis zu 2400 Gewinnspielen teilnehmen! www.shortwin.de.