LL-L "Phonology" 2004.03.16 (06) [E]

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From: Ben J. Bloomgren <godsquad at cox.net>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2004.03.16 (01) [E]

My question for you, if you can help me out here, is how does an American
> learn to stop aspirating? I'm ever looking for ways to improve my
> pronunciation (though I recognize this is not something that will bar me
> from being understood in French or any other Romance language). And
there's
> also the problem of recognizing aspiration: I've never been able to when I
> listen to Indic languages, nor have I been able to accurately pronounce
> aspirated and unaspirated consonants.
>
> Mòran taing,
> Uilleam Òg mhic Sheumais

Uilleam, I can help you with this. Think of English and Gaelic words that
have more than one consonant in a word. For example, stink, scan, screw,
etc. You don't say "sKHrew, s-tink, sKHan," right? I tried my best using
only Latin letters to do aspiration. Even the p in the word aspiration is
not aspirated, as an s is before it. Try to take a word like screw and
remove the initial s. Say "ckrew, sCan."
Ben

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