Re: Conlang for giant caterpillars

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout 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.
Oh *THAT* "middle part" of the tongue. I would have said "raising
the central part of the tongue". Afterall, laterals are sometimes
called "central approximants". But hey, middle or central, what's
the difference right?

-kristian- 8)