The Language Sounds That Could Exist, But Don't
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Publicado 2019-09-02
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REFERENCES:
Harbeck, J. (2009). Presented at the 30th annual Editors’ Association of Canada conference, Toronto, June 6, 2009.
Algeo, J., & Pyles, T. (2004). The origins and development of the English language (5th ed.). Boston, Mass.: Thomson/Wadsworth.
Nicolaidis, Katerina (2005). "Approval of new IPA sound: the labiodental flap". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 35 (2): 261.
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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And that's it for this run of the Language Files! Thanks to co-authors Gretchen McCulloch and Molly Ruhl, and animator Stephen Houston-Moore. And to answer the question that'll get asked ten times in response to this, these videos and comments get scheduled weeks in advance so I don't have to worry about actually being online when they launch.
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The distinct lack of him trying to pronounce non-symbol phonemes displeases me
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"A velar trill is judged imposibble." Me for 5 minutes: gghhghhhhhhhghgrhhgggrghrgrgggrghr
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Of note: "hiccough" is a back-formation, "hiccup" is the older term. The spelling -cough came about from false-association with coughing.
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My parents are actually linguists and phoneticists and they always say to me “haaaarrrr kkkkk ha! Ooooowwwaaallllah qah-zah-blahc-kaaaahhh! At 2pm”. Always brings a tear to my eye if I’m being honest.
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“By all means try it” if you think I haven’t been imitating a dying owl for the past 30 seconds already...
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I can totally imagine a bunch of scientists sitting together trying to produce all kinds of strange sounds just to decide whether a box of the table should be white or gray.
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Learning English is difficult, it can be taught through tough thorough thought though…
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Took a beginning Spanish class once that had a bunch of teachers in it. They were complaining how hard Spanish was. The teacher asked how do you pronounce "comb", "tomb", "bomb" and why are they pronounced that way. Suddenly Spanish words were making a whole lot of sense.
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So this is basically a periodic table of human linguistic elements.
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new pick up line: "hey baby, don't mean to brag, but I can velar trill"
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Of all the things you make videos about, linguistics are by far my top favourite. They have really made my ears more sensitive to things in speech I never knew existed, and have made me realise that what I thought was unique to certain languages probably exists in other languages, but just really less emphasized and less central to them.
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funny you said "hawaii" which has a written glottal stop in hawaiian "hawai'i"
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I'm a little disappointed that we didn't get to hear how those "possible but never used in any language" consonants sound like.
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I just tried a glottal lateral, now i need a fresh shirt.
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I’m taking a linguistics class this semester and I couldn’t stop laughing imagining a language based on the sound you make when choking on water
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As retired Speed-Language-Pathologist with a specialty in phonology, I enjoyed your presentation (as well as others you’ve made). They say you can always learn more and I have through you. Thank You.
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As someone once said: English is a language where "cough" "rough" and "through" don't rhyme, but "pony" and "bologna" do.
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although i thought i could pronounce things thoroughly enough, "hiccough" just ploughed right through me.
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I learned IPA symbols and it helped me pronounce any language I want to learn easily. While other people struggle for long times to be able to pronounce a single word, pronunciation is not a big issue for me anymore.
