Re: Mutations in General
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 24, 2002, 17:41 |
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>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Mutations in general
>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:33:33 -0400
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>On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 12:45 , Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>>Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>>>>>+ Korean "tensified" stops. If another language exists that makes use
>>>>>of
>>>>>them I haven't been able to find it...though if someone knows of one,
Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>>>>
>>This "reinforced" vs "lax" contrast sounds alot like a fortis vs lenis
>>distinction, does it not?
>>
>I just looked up the terms today. Yes, it does. I'm at a loss as to why
>it isn't described that way in the literature.
Scholarly tradition among koreanists, I'd guess. Idiosyncratic terms used to
describe a particular language aren't that rare. Might the terms
"reinforced" and "lax" be more or less direct translations of the Korean
terms?
Andreas
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