Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, SuomenkieliMaa wrote:

> Oh, a note in passing, I mentioned last time the
> Korean "l"... and albeit I'm in a professional
> linguist in that I would know all terminology, because
> I do not, I do pay attention perhaps to the degree of
> a pro linguist to spoken language; and to me, the
> Korean "l" as I term it, appears mostly at the end of
> words (like "han-gul" or "il-bon") where the "l"
> stresses itself throughout the listener's eardrum.
> That sound, I for one love.
That particular sound is an allophone of Korean "r" in the position you
mention.  :-)  Try to get a Korean to pronounce "l" at the *beginning* of
a syllable and you'll probably get Korean "r"...

YHL

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