Re: Rating Languages

In a message dated 9/26/01 3:58:05 AM, dnsulani@ZAHAV.NET.IL writes:

<< 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. >>

    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...

-David

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