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Re: Conlang for giant caterpillars

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, May 30, 1999, 15:14
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) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]