Re: Phonetic question

Bart Mathias wrote:

> "Kevin Wayne Williams" writes:
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>>Sean Holland wrote:
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>>>Perhaps in Kevin's dialect it is sing+ger.
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>>Closer to both being in+ger. I guess that I might make a tiny, tiny
>>g at 
>>  the end of the "in", but if it is there at all, it is small.
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> That's doubly weird, if you don't mind my saying so.  First, there's
> no such thing as a tiny, tiny "g."  Either you stop the air flow by
> raising your tongue to your soft palate, or you don't.
This is a lot like a centipede trying to walk while concentrating on its
legs. If I just say "sing", there isn't really a noticable "g" as such.
My tongue hits my palate, and the sound is coming out my nose. I can
hold that weird "kind of n, but not quite" sound indefinitely. When I
say "singer", "ringer", "finger", etc., it is always the same sequence
... tongue to palate, same as in "sing", then "ger" as a sound. If I
consciously say "sin ger" (As in "Sin, girls, it's fun!") I can clearly
hear and feel that the sound I make at the end of the first syllable of
"singer" and the word "sin" are different, but I can't call the noise I
am making a "g". My palate is stopped, but an "n" is coming out of my
nose. It is very close to the sound that we are discussing when we are
talking about a "nasalised g" in Japanese. It is EXTREMELY nasalised,
though.

KWW