On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:05:47 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>15-08-03 10:47, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> I think Ladefoged & Maddieson's analysis is that Polish (and Mandarin) [s']
>> etc. can be accomodated within the "standard" set of articulations (laminal
>> post-alveolar in this case), at the cost of an extra parameter "shape of
>> the tongue" (here "palatalized", i.e. with antero-dorso/prepalatal
>> contact).
>
>I know, but the choice of "palatalised" as a shape-of-the-tongue feature
>is not particularly felicitous.

Agreed. I think of it as "super-domed".


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