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Timing, again. Here's a recording of me doing it: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15543016/jaia.wav and here's a spectrogram of the recording: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15543016/jaia.png You can see the difference in the two in that is slightly longer that [j]. I've also apparently begun a lot more abruptly ...

What I've always wondered is if it's only dependent on the language's phoneme inventory whether you analyse a particular sound as a labiovelar or a cluster of stop + /w/, why is PIE always thought of as having labiovelars when it had an independent /w/ phoneme? Another thing I've always wondered is ...

A1: Bedroom A2: Washroom / Utility Room A3: Kitchen A4: Lounge / Living Room A5: Dining Room A6: Sitting Room A7: Hallway A8: Main Bedroom A9: Ensuite Bathroom A10: Walk-in Wardrobe A11: Bathroom (If it has a bath or shower in it, if not then just 'toilet') A12: Garage B1: Bedroom B2: Bathroom (ditt...

Age: 19 Gender: Male Nationality: British State/Province/Other Subdivision: Manchester Occupation: Student Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual Status: Single Native Language: English Secondary Languages: none Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: Too many to list Religion: Atheist Politics...

Am I the only person who still has /ŋg/ in all positions for <ng>? i.e. the ng in finger and running are both pronounced the same: /fɪŋgə/ and /ɹʊnɪŋg/, and the two ng's in 'singing' are also both the same for me: /sɪŋgɪŋg/

Reading: Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks, I've got the whole Culture series lined up after it was recommended to me by a friend. I'll have to reserve judgment on it until I've read a bit more . And I just finished reading the first two volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire , A Game of Thrones and A Cla...

'y'know', I say it all the damn time, I probably use it as a filler even more than er or erm. 'I had a great time, y'know, and it was, y'know, just really good. In fact I had this, y'know, thing, right, which was, y'know, great.' Effing annoying.

I would guess it won't last very long. Almost every dialect of English has come up with an alternative colloquial form of the 2P Plural. I tend to say 'you lot' most of the time. My dad still says 'youse', bless him. Although under the influence of the rest of the family, he has now begun to conflat...

I have a parent language that highly restricts what consonants can occur at the syllable coda (if any occur at all), specifically, no clusters are allowed and the syllable can only end in a nasal or a sibilant. I would like either the first or second generation daughter languages to have a bit more ...

With vowel harmony the assimilation tends to be progressive rather than regressive, but the principle is much the same. I don't know that that's true. Rather the term vowel harmony seems to be used more when root vowels affect affix vowels than the other way around, or at least that's the impressio...

This question has probably asked loads of times before, but I didn't find anything by searching so here we go: what are some ways vowel harmony can develop in a lang? Asking because I'm thinking about incorporating it properly in my conlang. At the moment I've got a rudimentary front/back harmony sy...

'me and my sister's car' is the only one that sounds OK to me- I'd use that in both formal and informal settings. To my ears at least, all the others sound ungrammatical.

ooh, yay!

A little belated I know, but I've just noticed this and it looks great, looking forward to its release!

I would definitely be interested in a PDF version, as I would use it as a reference whilst conlanging on my computer mostly anyway.

Looking forward to further titles!