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Igel

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8. There was a velar.

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2012, 08:22 PM

Mar 2012

The formants are wrong for a dental.

/ng/ is a nasal velar, so is the /n/ before final /k/ in English.

The /n/ in "coon" is a dental.

First segment could be /p/, could be /k/. Could be any other velar or labial. I also don't hear enough rounding on the vowel for a good /u/. Even if he was laxing his high vowels.

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There was a velar. Igel Mar 2012 #8