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Re: Strange phonology

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 9, 1999, 23:32
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:20:03 -0300 FFlores <fflores@...> writes:
>I'd like to know your opinion on some sounds >I intend to have in a new language. > >1) Have you ever heard of an aspirated trill? >I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, represented as ><rh>, which would be /r/ with a simultaneous >aspiration. I mean, it looks possible, but I don't >know if it exists anywhere and if it could contrast >with a non-aspirated trill /r/.
Well, i can certainly pronounce it, and it sounds cool, so why not?
>3) Is it reasonable to have an aspiration contrast >for nasals?
With the air coming out of your nose?
>4) I just produced a sound more or less like the >one a child might produce when he sticks out the >tip of his tongue between his teeth, and blows. >I found in this way you can produce a trill >(makes your lower lip shake) or an approximant >(air going between the tongue and the lower lip), >though I don't know if they exist in any language, >or how to call them. What do you think?
You can also make a stop, a sound which i just discovered recently. I've never heard of any of these "lingua(bi?)labial" (i think that's the word) sounds in any languages.
> >Thank you all in advance. >--Pablo Flores
-Stephen (Steg) "hhalomot zeh b'emet" ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]