LL-L "Language varieties" 2006.01.22 (05) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 22 January 2006 * Volume 05
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From: Gary Taylor <gary_taylor_98 at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L Language Varieties

Hi Rikus

you asked

"Gary is talking about affrication and aspirated
consonants.
I met the same words earlier. Can someone explain to
me what that 
means?"

An aspirated consonant is one that has a puff of air
'h' after it. 

Affricates are consonants that start off as a 'stop'
consonant (one that can't be held constantly e.g. p,
t, k - you can't say 'pppppp' without saying separate
p's) and then end up as a fricative (one that can be
held constantly e.g. f, s, sh, German ch etc.). These
affricates are things like German 'z' (ts) or English
'ch' (tS). 

Affrication is therefore the process of turning a
non-affricate into an affricate. This is happening in
southeastern British English for example where 't',
which traditionally is aspirated - i.e. t + a small h,
is often now pronounced t + a small s. This is similar
to German 'z' (ts) but the s is not quite as strong.
Using phonetic notation the German 'z' is written
[ts], whereas the affricated English one would just be
a superscripted s to indicate it's not as strong. I
know when I say my surname 'Taylor' to Germans (living
in Berlin) with my normal London accent, they often
hear a 'z' instead of a 't', so I always have to
Germanise it and lose my 's' so people can understand
me better.

Gary

http://hometown.aol.com/taylor16471/myhomepage/index.html

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