Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:04:37 -0400 Oskar Gudlaugsson
<hr_oskar@...> writes:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:51:54 -0700, Barry Garcia
> <Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:
>
> >>I have a professor whose wife is Japanese, and her name is
> Yoshiko. But,
> >he always pronounces (and she seems to too), as /joSko/. So,
> wouldnt it
> >not be unreasonable for Yoon to keep the /St/ she likes?\
> Not at all. And I love the sound of /S/ + plosive combinations. As
> to the
> Japanese thing, I gather the Japanese high vowels, /i/ and /M/, are
> _devoiced_ between unvoiced obstruents; which would be why Yoshiko
> sounds
> like /joSko/ to us non-natives.
> Óskar
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That's what my native Japanese speaker Phonetics & Phonology teacher
said.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "you're one of those people who put random apostraphes
  all over the place to make things look alien, aren't you!"
     ~ me, based on someone's posting on Conlang, to my GM Brandon