The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

From: elmeras2000
Message: 30516
Date: 2004-02-02

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> >In most languages I know /b,d,g/ are voiced and lax,
> >while /p,t,k/ are voiceless and fortis,
>
> My dialect of English (along with several other dialects of
English)
> includes voiceless lax consonants, which are heard by speakers of
British
> English as voiced: e.g. in "Latin", "forty" etc.