Re: Pharingials, /l/ vs. /r/ in Southeast Asia
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 6, 2004, 20:16 |
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En réponse à Amanda Babcock :
>In other words, the various kinds of rhotic sounds, though they may
>have nothing else in common, all reproduce some small fragment of a growl,
>and are thus perceived as alike by some very old part of our sound-
>perceptual mechanism.
Indeed. IIRC (someone better versed in acoustics can correct me if I'm
wrong), all sounds called "rhotic" have something in common (I have in my
head the phrase "low second formant", but it's probably wrong :)) ).
Anyway, they have all acoustically something in common. Why they appear so
different from each other is that this common trait can be produced in many
different ways, but is always perceived the same. So rhoticity,
acoustically speaking, is a very well-defined phenomenon, not something
vague. It's a very specific acoustic phenomenon which just to be produced
in a variety of ways which don't otherwise seem to have something in common.
Christophe Grandsire.
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