Re: Conlang for giant caterpillars

Steg Belsky wrote:

> >> I don't get this one. When I do what you have described, I get a
> >> palatal fricative.
>
> >Try it this way: put your tongue in position as if to say 'l', and
> >without moving the tongue try to say 's'. That usually produces a
> >lateral fricative.
> >
> >   Irina
>
> Is that the same thing as a "lateralized sibilant"?
I don't know, but it sounds to me like the Welsh double "l":

        llyfr
        Lloegr, etc.

> A book i saw about the history of Hebrew has a chart of the phonemes of
> Proto-Semitic, and it has two "lateralized" consonants:
>
> {s'} (s-acute), >> Hebrew _sin_, a "lateralized sibilant".
> {d-.} (d-underbar-underdot), a "lateralized emphatic voiced
> (inter?)dental fricative".  If i remember correctly, this collapsed with
> the _tzadi_ (emphatic s) in Hebrew
>
> I've figured out how to make emphatics, but i have no idea how to
> "lateralize" either of these.
I've always thought of the lateral fricative as a hissed "l," where
you put your tongue in the "l" position and hiss out the sides of your
mouth.  In Welsh, you should choose which side you hiss out of and
really give it some spit.  ;-)  Attempts in Shakespeare's day produced
Floyd (for Lloyd), and Fluellen (for Llewelyn).

Sally





> -Stephen (Steg)
>
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