http://blog.oup.com/2010/06/break-and-other-br-words/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 22 May 2013 12:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2010/06/break-and-other-br-words/#comment-166852 John Cowan Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:41:27 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=9487#comment-166852 When I am reading aloud to my grandson and come to the word <i>oink</i>, I pronounce it with a pulmonic ingressive voiceless nasalized velar fricative with lip rounding, followed by unreleased [k]. That sounds sufficiently piglike to me, as I suspect it will to you if you try it. If it's too hard, use egression rather than ingression and omit the nasalization. When I am reading aloud to my grandson and come to the word oink, I pronounce it with a pulmonic ingressive voiceless nasalized velar fricative with lip rounding, followed by unreleased [k]. That sounds sufficiently piglike to me, as I suspect it will to you if you try it. If it’s too hard, use egression rather than ingression and omit the nasalization.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2010/06/break-and-other-br-words/#comment-165119 Terry Collmann Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:22:10 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=9487#comment-165119 Hypercorrection seems to have affected your "nuclear" example. Hypercorrection seems to have affected your “nuclear” example.

]]>