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Re: palato-alveolar affricate

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Monday, January 22, 2001, 21:12
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 -- INTEL = Only half of "intelligence".