Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> YHL wrote:
> >On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > Barry Garcia wrote:
> > > > So, wouldnt it
> > > > not be unreasonable for Yoon to keep the /St/ she likes?\
> > >
> > > Yeah, just not /Sv/, that would still have to be /Siv/
> >
> >Perhaps I could switch that to /Sf/.  :-)
>
> From my (limited) experience, German {schw} is normally realized as [Sv_0],
> which is very close to [Sf] - add a little more force and you're there.
Huh...thanks for the observation.  :-)  I'm learning all sorts of things
about German and Japanese in the process!  Which, OC, was part of the intent.

YHL

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