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