Re: Conlang for giant caterpillars

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 May 1999, Kristian Jensen wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
I'm removing <|l> from the phonology (see my other post).
But the sound you describe is the one I transliterated <sl>
(which I think corresponds to Welsh <ll>).


--Pablo Flores