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Re: sound change question

From:Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 23:28
:     Uhh...are these voiced, aspirated fricatives?  I've never heard of
such a
: thing!  It was only recently that I discovered you could have aspirated
: voiceless fricatives...  Does any natural language have these?
:
: -David

I don't doubt they're a little un-naturalistic - the idea is that they're in
reality half-voiced, and the voiceless segment has aspiration.

(so a word like /t`az\/ is realised as something closer to [t`az\s\^h] )

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Shreyas