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Re: Love Those Double Vowels (was: Diving In...)

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Sunday, November 4, 2001, 4:08
At 06.03 p.m. 3.11.2001 -0500, you wrote:
>David Peterson wrote: > > No: In other words, they're fricatives. And English doesn't > > even have voiced consonants in most environments; how would you know? > >Um ... yes we do. Voiced fricatives, glides, and liquids are undeniably >voiced in English. Voiced stops are usually only half-voiced.
What's a half voiced sound? Indeed, what is the English phonology _actually_ like, phonetically speaking? Tristan