Re: Confusatory
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 1:58 |
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:47:58 -0500 Eric Christopherson
<rakko@...> writes:
> Related topic: Does anyone know why /c/ and /j\/ (err, I think
> that's
> X-SAMPA for barred-j, the voiced palatal stop, but I'm too lazy too
> look it
> up ;) ) seem to become affricates so frequently, where other stops
> don't?
> I've wondered that for quite a while, and my guess would be that as
> a plain
> stop they sound to close to either the alveolars or the velars, but
> I'm really not sure.
>
> --
> Eric Christopherson | Rakko
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Could it be that the middle of the tongue is just not as dextrous as the
front or back? At least that's how it feels to me, but then again i
don't speak any language with a palatal stop, so i could just be out of
practice.
-Stephen (Steg)
"sleep, like a fog, blew over him." ~ _gilgamesh_