Re: Tonal inflection?
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 25, 2008, 12:50 |
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 9:26 PM, deinix nxtxr <deinx.nxtxr@...> wrote:
>> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Henry
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>> > fricatives, implosives, clicks. Then figure in voicing,
> aspiration
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>> But not nasals or approximants? Interesting.
>
> Nasality could disrupt the usage of voicing, but it's still a
> possibility. I'm not sure I could fit approximants into the
> scheme.
OK, so if voicing is going to be morphologically significant
like tone, then nasals might not work; all voiceless nasals
tend to sound alike to me. Voiceless aproximants like
/j_0/ and /w_0/ sound distinct enough, though, I think.
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Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/