Re: USAGE: Of voicing, aspiration, and meticulous analysis ...

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> This is sorta unsurprising, since in English /tS/ is undeniably a unitary
> phoneme, and affricates often behave much like stops phonologically. Asserting
> /tS/ as a phonological stop in Swedish would, OTOH, be rather outré, and the
> behaviour would be exceptional in any case.
Hmm ... I seem to use a very slight amount of aspiration in /tS/.  Not
nearly as much as in /t/, but definitely a tiny amount, which is lackign
in /S/