Re: IPA diacritics and stuff

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. My introspective judgement as a native
speaker with a good deal of phonetic training is that
"anterodorso-prepalatal" is a more accurate description in this case.
The X-ray tracings and palatograms of the Polish and Chinese fricatives
I have seen are consistent with such a description.

Piotr