[lojban] Re: g/k (was: RE: Re: More stuff

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

Craig:
> Huh. English is my native language, and I pronounce /p t k/ as [ph th kh]
> prevocallically and [p t k] elsewhere; my /b d g/ is always [b d g] 

There is a lot of variation between accents, of course, and I have
not had the chance to study American ones properly. Textbooks
report the 'typical' English pronunciation as /p t k/ aspirated
prevocalically and unaspirated postvocalically and /b d g/ as
unvoiced, the contrast postvocalically being signalled by vowel
duration. Maybe those descriptions have a British bias. I can
think of lots of accents that vary in certain respects (but I
won't go into details), though in my mind's ear I can't recognize
the one you report.

--And.

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