Egotistical announcement of my presence on the list. Greet me.

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.



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