Re: Aspirated stops vs. fricatives

At 19:25 on 31.12.1998, Orjan Johansen wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Tom Wier wrote:
>
> > [note to our Scandinavian readers out there:  do your languages
> > feature unrelease in final position?]
>
> As far as I can tell, I aspirate all my final stops.  (In English as well,
> alas.)
>
> Greetings,
> =D8rjan.
Likewise.  On both accounts I'm afraid.  In general I have a harder time
not aspirating final stops than producing unaspirated prevocalic stops.
This is especially embarrasing when speaking Tibetan, since in some
Non-Hlasa central dialects final stops are aspirated if the syllable is
high-tone, so not only do I fail to pronounce the "elegant" unreleased
final stops, I also mess up the distinction between hi and lo tone
syllables, since the aspiration gives natives the impression of hi tone no
matter my attempts to speak the vowels on a different pitch :(

/BP


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