Re: Rating Languages
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 27, 2001, 7:37 |
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At 14:03 2001-09-26 -0400, 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...
This is the normal situation in all Germanic lgs except Dutch and
Afrikaans, i.e there is a aspirated fortis vs. unaspirated lenis
contrast. They differ as to how strong the aspiration is and as to whether
the lenes get voiced in voiced environments (between vowels or between
vowel and voiced sonorant.)
/BP 8^)>
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