Palatals (was: Phonetic question...)
| From: | Y.Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 25, 2002, 9:16 |
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From: <kam@...>
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> (skipped)
> (a distinction between [n_j] and [J] for instance).
> ... Polish seems to
> have undergone at least three rounds of palatalisation and not all the
> resulting sounds have merged. It seems there are grammatical "soft/hard"
> alternations that involve affricates that are no longer phonetically
> palatal, plus palatals, plus consonants that seem to have palatalised
> allophones in appropriate environments ...
The same is 100% true about Ukrainian... My wife manages to distinguish
between /sik/ "juice" and /s'ik/ "(he) lashed" (BTW, both are written
{sik}). I can hear the difference but neither can reproduce it, nor can
represent it with IPA/X-SAMPA clearly. It looks like some consonants and
vowels mutually effect one on another, so it may be smth like [sIk] and
[s_jik] -- I wish I knew. The difference is present only in a very careful
speech.
> Keith Mylchreest
Yitzik
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