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Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Thursday, April 26, 2001, 15:45
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Henrik Theiling wrote:>Hi! > > > > > > From my (limited) experience, German {schw} is normally realized as > >[Sv_0], > > > >I never noticed this, but the [_0] seems to be true for me! It is > >different from [Sf] as I always thought it was [Sv] (so definitely the > >/v/-phoneme). > > > I'm thinking that the phonemic difference between German /f/ and /v/ is > fortis vs lenis, not unvoiced vs voiced. Don't take my word for it tho' - > perhaps you know some German phonetician you could ask?
To clarify: one is pronounced more forcefully than the other? Could be...it sounds like it could be right, but I haven't heard a fluent/native speaker of German in quite a long time. D'you know, I'm still on good terms with my German TA from last semester. I'll drop her an email and ask if she knows, or knows where I can find out. :-) YHL