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.)
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8 comments:

  1. Mariano17 September 2015 at 18:41

    Epenthesis?

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  2. Unknown17 September 2015 at 19:05

    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. Unknown17 September 2015 at 19:09

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

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    2. Unknown17 September 2015 at 19:12

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

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  3. Kraut17 September 2015 at 20:20

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

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  4. Unknown17 September 2015 at 21:40

    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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  5. Unknown17 September 2015 at 22:01

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

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  6. Sidney Wood19 September 2015 at 11:34

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

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