Re: palato-alveolar affricate

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:44:40PM -0500, David Stokes wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Can someone tell me, what is the sound of a voiced palato-alveolar
> affricate ? Is this what English speakers think of as a "j" sound, as in
> "jelly jar" ? Is it something else ?
Yes, sounds right to me. :-) I tend to think of it as a stop, but I
suppose in reality it's an affricate.

> Also, does it seem a reasonable sound change to have a palatalized g
> become this sound ? And a palatalized k --> voiceless palato-alveolar
> affricate ?
Not sure... seems to me that it's quite a big change though -- "g" and "k"
are velars, quite far back, but palato-alveolars are towards the front,
between the alveolars and the palatals. But then again, I know very little
about sound change, so perhaps this *is* a likely change?


T

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