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Subject: Re: Tengwar modes for various languages
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At 18:06 -0800 6.1.2000, Rich Alderson wrote:
>
>Estonian does not have a voicing contrast in obstruents, but rather a contrast
>of lax/tense/(tense) geminate.
>
>The data was presented to me in my very first phonetics course in 1973, by the
>well-known phoneticist/phonetician, and native Estonian speaker, Ilse Lehiste.

However the lax obstruents are, or at least may be, voiced when standing
between two voiced sounds (VCV and NCV).  I've seen it myself on sonagrams
of words spoken by a native speaker.  There is admittedly a slight
possibility that this native speaker was influenced by Swedish, since she
had lived here for 40+ years.


/BP

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