Re: Infant Conphonology

Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

> Staving Andreas Johansson:
> >Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
> >
> > > My son, age 6 months, seems to be a fertile source of new phones,
> > > unrecognized by the IPA.  Most recently I've noticed a
> > > bilabio-latero-velar affricate, which I guess would be [bl)G)], though I
> > > normally just transcribe it as "blg".  It occurs in his favorite
> > > exclamation, [bl)G)a:], though his normal conversational register so far
> > > consists solely of [ba] repeated over and over . . .
> >
> >And people told me my sublimino-velar trill was weird ...
> >
> >                                                    Andreas
>
> What, a velar trill that subtly affects people's behaviour, even though
> they aren't aware of it? That is wierd.
I'm not quite sure what you mean. The people in question were posters on this
list - whom one might suspect of being acquainted with odd sounds - the last
time I mentioned that phone. I can't do it naturally enough to insert it into
connected speech, so I've not been able to test how linguistically unaware
people would react to it.

                                            Andreas

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