John Vertical skrev:
> Chris Bates wrote:
>
>> > a) What's the difference between lateral release and a lateral
>> affricate?
>>
>> An affricate has friction, so for instance the lateral affricate
>> commonly written tl in languages like Nahuatl is /tK)/. A laterally
>> released stop lacks the fricative release of an affricate I think, and
>> is basically formed by releasing the stop by lowering the sides of the
>> tongue instead of the whole tongue but without the friction.
>
>
> All right.. but wouldn't *that* be just release into a homorganic
> lateral *approximant*?
>
> I very well may be just kind of missing the point of the whole "release"
> diacritics - they just seem to imply that the stop is followed by a
> homorganic continuant of some sort. Is that it, or is there more to it?
I think the point is that the stop part can't be individually
released before the onset of the lateral -- you *specify*
that the stop is released *by* an homorganic continuant.
>> > b) Are /K K\/ considered sibilants or spirants?
>> >
>> > John Vertical
>> >
>> >
>> I don't think they're sibilants, since the air isn't escaping quickly
>> through a narrow channel but from both sides of the tongue.
>
>
> But is the "channel" essential? I recall the definition of "sibilant"
> had something on the airflow passing over the teeth...
> Wikipedia seems to classify lateral fricatives separate from both
> spirants and sibilants, which isn't helping either.
>
>
> Um, I'm getting kicked out; I'll continue later.
>
> John Vertical
>
>
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