Re: Conlang for giant caterpillars

On Sun, 30 May 1999 13:30:39 +0200 Irina Rempt-Drijfhout
<ira@...> writes:
>> Pablo Flores wrote:
>> >lateral <|l> is similar, but the tongue is pressed
>> >against the lower teeth and raised in its middle part.
>> 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"?
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.


-Stephen (Steg)

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