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Re: subconscious sound preferences

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 29, 1998, 4:15
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 21:17:12 -0600 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>Herman Miller wrote: >> One sound that I tend to avoid even though it's common in English is >[f].
>Do you use [P]? Most of my langs use /f/, but it's not usually a >frequent sound. Some dialects of W. replace /T/ with /f/, I think.
I actually started Rokbeigalmki with [f], but 'of it's own accord' it shifted to [P]....i have a habit of pronouncing my [f]s like [P]s even in langs where it doesn't belong, like Spanish and Hebrew....not so much in English, though...it doesn't sound like a very "Englishy" kind of consonant. -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]