tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 29 06:41:01 1994
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Re: Pronunciation
- From: KLI Round Table Acct <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Pronunciation
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 09:40:51 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "George Aaron Broadwell" at Sep 28, 94 03:03:43 pm
>
>
> If it is of any use to people, this is a linguist's impression of what
> Okrand is describing:
>
> "q" = a uvular stop, like those found in Quechua or Arabic (IPA symbol: [q]),
> "Q" = a (voiceless) uvular fricative, like a voiceless version of French [r]
> (IPA symbol Greek chi),
> H = a voiceless velar fricative, like German "ch" (IPA [x]),
> gh = a voiced velar fricative, as in Arabic [IPA symbol gamma].
>
> If any of you are at universities with a linguistics department, ask a
> linguist (nicely) to make the sounds I just described for you. [IPA =
> International Phonetic Alphabet, a way linguists have of describing sounds.]
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> George Aaron Broadwell, [email protected]
> Anthropology; Linguistics and Cognitive Science,
> SUNY-Albany, Albany, NY 12222
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Thanks, I appreciate getting another linguist's confirmation on
what I've been hearing. Though I suppose I don't think of myself as a
linguist, hiding out in a psychology department as I do, but according to
dozens of newspaper articles I'm a linguistics professor. Which is
pretty impressive since we don't offer linguistics at my college. :)
Lawrence
P.S. So George (may I call you George?), when are you going to join the KLI?
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