On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:31:44 +0300 Dan Sulani <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>     What's interesting about this, is that upon seeing me trying to
> listen carefully to the fricative, they (who have no linguistic
> training
> that I know of)  tried to be helpful and explain
> what the sound was. They _explained_, in Hebrew, that they used
> a  /x/  (velar fricative)  as in Hebrew. But they _pronounced_ it
> again and again with a /C/ (palatal fricative)! Talk about the
> influence of the lang that you are speaking at a given time
> upon your perception of what you think you do, even in your native
> lang! (Let alone listening to yourself actually do it!)
> Dan Sulani
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And then there's the influence of one language you speak on another... I
pronounce the Spanish /x/ as [H], the Mizrahhi-Hebrew <hhet> pharyngeal
fricative.  And then the Spanish 'soft <d>' [D] and <b> [b]/[B] took over
my Hebrew!  And then there's the bilabial fricative [P] that every so
often takes over every language i speak, including my native language
English!  It got so annoying that i canonized it in Rokbeigalmki as the
only "F" sound.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "mai hhazit?"