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Re: A bunch of phonological questions

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, September 19, 2005, 17:49
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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