Re: new to conlanging

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Peterson [mailto:DigitalScream@AOL.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 4:32 AM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: new to conlanging
>
>
> In a message dated 5/23/01 3:02:22 PM, jaspax@U.WASHINGTON.EDU writes:
>
> << > on dethond'aema /on d2"Tond%eimQ/, lit. "in heart-mine"
> or "in my heart."
> > [snip[
> > corgotaeni /"korGoTeinE/
>
> In the first example you have <th> = [T], and in the second <t> = [T].
> Why?
>  >>
>
>     You know, if this were a real language and I were doing a phonemic
> analysis, I'd say that /t/>[T]/__V [+front, -low], and
> /t/>[t]/elsewhere,
> whereas if you want [T] in front of a back vowel or low front
> vowel, you
> write it /th/.  While it'd be more likely for [t] to become
> [tS] or [S] in
> front of high front vowels, [T] isn't that unlikely, I'd say.
I notice when I say corgotaeni (or corgoteini) that my tongue sticks out a
little on the "t" sound, like it's a mix between /t/ and /T/.  How would you
describe that?

Guy