Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

Hi!

Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
> > fahren (unvoiced)
> > waren  (voiced)
>
> :-)  Thanks.  It's things like "von" that I'm puzzled about, because I
> *think* I've heard a few people consistently pronounce it as [v], not
> [f] (as I was told in two grammars and two classes), but I don't know if
> that's *maybe* English-speakers-who-know-German syndrmoe.
But `von' is clearly /fOn/.  And /f/ is definitely realised tense and
voiceless.  It should be a very clear [f] then (consistently,
presumably many if not all dialects).  I thought the question was
about whether /v/ could be voiceless because its main difference was
being lax.  That I don't know.

**Henrik