Thursday 17 September 2015

listen to (the) unconscious

'Listen to the unconscious'? You may think that I've gone loopy. Whether this is true or not is not for me to decide.
What I want you to do is listen to the word in this recording and tell me if you spot a not too rare phonetic phenomenon.


(My thanks to Paul Carley for the link.)

8 comments:

  1. Is it to do with:

    a) the consonant after the initial vowel?
    b) any other consonant?
    c) any other vowel?
    d) anything else?

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    1. I forgot to include the initial vowel in the previous list.

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    2. Emilio said "I forgot to include..." And what about section d, eh?

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  2. As Mariano rightly suggested - it's an instance of epenthesis

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  3. So it was section d. Yes, I can notice it now, before the second "n" - one of those epenthetic glottal stops that you seem to appreciate so much.

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  4. What? A stop before the ʃ ? You must be joking!

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  5. Between n and c too (perceptually, haven't looked at the waveform or spectrogram)

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