From: Patrick C. Ryan
Message: 19162
Date: 2003-02-24
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From: "P&G" <petegray@...>
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Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural
> > It's not a matter of opinion. Acoustic phonetics is a branch of
> > applied phyisics.
>
> But how a particular wave function is perceived depends on the speaker and
> the language. One person's /d/ is another person's /t/, and so on. So
> some linguistic questions cannot be adequately and totally answered by an
> appeal to physics.
[PCR]
In my opinion, a voiced dental or coronal or alveolar stop should have a physical definition that is independent of the perception of any individual.
Pat
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