Re: OT: Mismatched phonologies / accents

Quoting Peter Collier <petecollier@...>:

> Appologies to those of you who will get two copies of
> this message.
>
> I have the following initial phoneme inventory for
> consonants:
>
> /  p      t     k    /
> /  p\ B   T D   x G  /
> /         s z        /
> /  m      n          /
> /  w      l      j   /
> /         r          /
>
> I need to try and hammer a Gallo-Romance based
> language into that shape, and there are a few Romance
> phonemes I'm struggling to fit.
>
> If a speaker only has the above phonemes readily
> available, do you think the following approximate
> pronunciations are likely?
>
> /S/  > /T/
> /Z/ > /D/
> /ts/ > /s/
> /dz/ > /z/
> /tS/ > /x/
> /dZ/ > /G/
The last pair seems odd to me. In addition, the logic of the other changes
surely suggest /tS/ > /T/ and /dZ/ > /D/?

> Or do you think any of the sounds might be distinctive
> enough to the speakers's ears, and easy enough to
> accurately 'mimic', that a couple of new phonemes
> might be added to the inventory (e.g. /S/, /Z/)?
>
> Any thoughts/alternative suggestions greatly received!
Depending on the receiving language's phonotactics, the affricates might,
perhaps only medially, be perceived as clusters. English does this to medial
/ts)/, eg. in "pizza".

                                       Andreas