At 10:46:45 PM on Saturday, November 5, 2005,
david_russell_watson wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>> A partial analogy to the English is English _hew_ - is it
>> /hju:/ or /çu:/?
> Well if it's analyzed phonemically, then it's /hju:/, but
> if instead phonetically, then it's [çu:].
That would be a very poor representation of my
pronunciation, even ignoring the fact that my vowel is more
like [Uw]. As near as I can tell, my initial consonant
involves simultaneous or near-simultaneous gestures as for
[x] and [j], usually with some lip-rounding (but not
pursing); it's definitely not [ç], though the [x] is
definitely fronted a little. (Rather beside the point, but
I'd never actually examined it before.)
Brian