Re: syllable final labialized stops
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 6, 2005, 1:12 |
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william drewery wrote:
> Can anyone give me any tips on pronouncing vowelless syllable final
> labialized stops? Should I throw a schwa in there? Thanks,
>
> Travis
Voiced or voiceless? Voiceless ones shouldn't be too hard, if you can
give them a slight aspiration; you can hear the difference in the
aspiration. For the voiced ones, I think an extra-brief, unstressed [u]
or [y] (leaving the tongue as near as possible to where the stop is
articulated) seems like it would be better than a schwa. With practice,
you can get the [u] short and unstressed enough that it sounds like part
of the consonant.