Re: Rating Languages
| From: | Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 26, 2001, 10:57 |
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On 25 Sept, David Peterson wrote:
> In a message dated 9/24/01 11:54:30 PM, exponent@TECHNOLOGIST.COM writes:
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> << Anyhoo, could there be an explanation? :P >>
>
> Possibly they need the air, or think they do. Since it's voiceless,
> there's air going through your lungs and out your mouth (or, at least, a
lot
> of air, as opposed to a little bit of hot air). Psychological, maybe?
>
Perhaps. Especially if "psychological" is taken in a broad sense: ie
"not due to physical damage". Perhaps an emotional reaction or maybe simply
a strong native phonological habit that is hard to change.
At any rate, even among people who have trouble producing all the
sounds in their _native_ language, the voiced/voiceless problem is a lot
more common than one might think. I deal with it all the time.
Most of the time, when I treat this difficulty,
the client has no problems with the voiceless sounds and needs to be taught
how to produce the voiced equivalents. Although the opposite problem
(no voiceless sounds) is not unknown to me.
Dan Sulani
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