Re: Rating Languages
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 27, 2001, 17:13 |
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At 11:59 2001-09-27 -0400, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> >This is the normal situation in all Germanic lgs except Dutch and
> >Afrikaans, i.e there is a aspirated fortis vs. unaspirated lenis
> >contrast.
>
>Does this mean that Dutch and Afrikaans don't aspirate stops, or their
>voiced stops are fortes, or fully voiced?
Voiced stops aren't aspirated, and voiced stops are fully voiced.
/BP 8^)>
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