[86755] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Two pronunciation questions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark J. Reed)
Sat Oct 31 20:19:42 2009
In-Reply-To: <a1173fff0910311559m617753bcn486f3b48cfa55415@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:16:17 -0400
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
The ' is probably meant to represent aspiration; apostrophe is
commonly used for that. The [tɬ] is supposed to be strongly
aspirated, i.e. [tɬʰ], and with affricates it's also common to put
the aspiration indicator on the stop symbol rather than the fricative.
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com> wrote:
> First, how to people tend to pronounce two identical consonants when
> they are right next to each other? As long, with both sounds
> released, or as a single sound? Has Okrand said anything about this?
>
> Second, on the KLI page, I noticed that the pronunciation guide has
> tlh written as [tˈɬ]... It looks like an IPA stress mark in between
> the t and the ɬ, and Iʼm just wondering what this represents? Is it
> an ejective? It looked to me from the dictionary that it wasnʼt an
> ejective, and the pronunciation audio file on KLI doesnʼt sound like
> an ejective...
>
> Thanksǃ
>
> Chris
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
