Re: Rating Languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 27, 2001, 0:44 |
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David Peterson wrote:
> That'd be because voiceless sounds are far less common and harder to
> produce. In fact, my phonology professor has argued (with PRAAT data to back
> it up), that there is, in fact, no [g] in English, but, rather, [k] without
> aspiration. For instance, he took the [k] in "skum" and removed it and
> placed it in front of the syllable "un" and it sounded EXACTLY like "gun".
> It was creepy...
That's true of any of the unaspirated stops. BUT, at least for me,
there's no aspiration in "back", for instance. If it were true that /g/
= [k], then "back" and "bag" should sound the same. But, voiced stops
are, as Tom pointed out, generally partially voiced in English, [bp],
[dt], [gk] in essence.
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