Re: y sound
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 17, 2003, 23:34 |
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Alexandre Lang wrote at 2003-04-17 23:23:11 (+0000)
> >
> >An english j is not one sound, it is a combination of two sounds,
> >d and what english writes as zh (Z). French uses j to represent
> >the sound english writes zh (Z). Try saying d and zh very quickly
> >one after the other til they merge together and you'll have an
> >english j. An english ch is t + sh (tS) the same but unvoiced.
> >
> >
> How does the IPA write zh though? just /zh/? Also, how does it write z?
In X-SAMPA, "zh" is [Z]. In the actual IPA its a yogh. To see what
that looks like, see the chart here:
http://www.i-foo.com/~kturtle/misc/xsamchart.gif
and find the symbol corresponding to X-SAMPA [Z].
"z" is just [z].
(Note - slashes // indicate phonemic transcription, square brackets []
indicate phonetic values)
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