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Re: Two pronunciation questions...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Sun Nov 1 03:06:30 2009

From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
In-Reply-To: <f60fe000910311716i88099c7qd6cfee9ae4ecd62c@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 08:03:10 +0000
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On 1 Nov 2009, at 00:16, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> 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.

The apostrophe is not used to indicate aspiration in the IPA. 

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/





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