You're not alone Regina. I have actually been told by a Lakota speaker of possibly a bit older than my generation that she could not tell the difference. I think the point is that both are affricates and are similar. However when I asked her to say icu 'take' and echun 'do', they were clearly different to me. It isn't exactly the same, but I remember that when I taught articulatory phonetics I used to ask my students to write down in phonetic script what I would say. Then I would pronounce /tliin tlodhs/ and they would all transcribe it as 'clean clothes', the point being that they wrote down what they thought I meant, tl- being an unrecognised sequence in English. In fact I think you could pronounce all your cl- s as tl-s and no one would bat an eye-lid. It isn't quite the same thing, but it illustrates that speakers impressions of what goes on in their own language are not always accurate.<br>Bruce<br><br><b><i>REGINA PUSTET
<pustetrm@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div>OK Bruce, OK Jan, I consider myself outvoted on the aspiration of kic(h)u. Fact is, with c, I tend to have trouble hearing the difference between aspiration and lack of it. With p/t/k this is a lot easier. I'm sure there is a phonological explanation for this -- maybe the alveolar fricative that technically precedes the aspiration in the affricate c has something to do with it.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regina</div> <div><br><br><b><i>Jan Ullrich <jfu@centrum.cz></i></b> wrote:</div> <blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name="GENERATOR"> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font> </div> <blockquote style="margin-right:
0px;"> <div></div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><font face="Tahoma">REGINA PUSTET<span class="328544211-22012008"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"> <font color="#000000">wrote</font>:</font></span></font></div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><font face="Tahoma"><span class="328544211-22012008"></span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="328544211-22012008"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span></font> </div> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="cs"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="328544211-22012008">> </span>ogle ki <span style=""> </span>kicu</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="328544211-22012008">> </span>shirt DEF give back</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font
face="Times New Roman"><span class="328544211-22012008">> </span>'he returned the shirt to her'</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="328544211-22012008">> </span>he <span style=""> </span>kicu <span style=""> </span>we!</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="328544211-22012008">> </span>that <span style=""> </span>give back <span style=""> </span>imperative</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="328544211-22012008">> </span>'give it back to him!'</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New
Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="328544211-22012008">> </span>I have transcribed the c in kicu as an unaspirated stop. <span class="328544211-22012008"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"> </font></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="328544211-22012008"></span></font> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="328544211-22012008"></span></font> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="328544211-22012008">Regina, I have always heard ch (aspirated) in this word. Of course, the aspiration tends to be weaker at the end of long words, for instance when there are many personal affixes involved in verb, as in wichauNkichupi 'we gave it back to
them'.</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="328544211-22012008"></span></font> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="328544211-22012008">Jan</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="328544211-22012008"></span></font> </div></blockquote></blockquote><br><div> </div><hr size="1">Never miss a thing. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs"> Make Yahoo your homepage.</a> </blockquote><br><p>
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