tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 28 12:14:37 1994
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Re: Pronunciation (Was: Re: KLBC: jItagh)
- From: [email protected] (George Aaron Broadwell)
- Subject: Re: Pronunciation (Was: Re: KLBC: jItagh)
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 15:10:46 -0400
R.B. Franklin wrote
>
>On Wed, 28 Sep 1994, Nick NICHOLAS wrote:
>
>> There are several places of articulation --- that is, where in the mouth the
>> constriction is, which is where the sound is being made:
>
>> Alveolar: s, z, t, d.
>
>The Klingon D is a little different though. However, the description in TKD
>seems awfully vague to me. "Halfway between the teeth and the velum" covers
>a large area. Do you think he meant halfway between the alveolar ridge and
>the velum? Is "D" what they call a "retroflex" stop?
>
>Also, how would you classify "tlh"? Would that be a voiceless
>lateral affricative?
>
>> Nick Nicholas. Linguistics, University of Melbourne. [email protected]
>
>
>yoDtargh
Those seem like exactly the correct conclusions to this linguist. "D" is
retroflex; "tlh" is a voiceless lateral affricate.
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