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Soft-sounding vs Hard-sounding phonology

 
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Kiri



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:58 pm    Post subject: Soft-sounding vs Hard-sounding phonology Reply with quote

Is soft-sounding vs hard-sounding just a personal feeling of each language user or is there any theory to it?

If there is, can you tell me what sounds or cathegories are mor soft-sounding or more hard-sounding?

In other words, is there any more or less universal theory as to what constitutes a soft/hard sound?
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Aert



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't know about a universal theory, but often palatal(ized) sounds are considered more 'soft' eg. in Russian there are the the plain consonants and the 'soft' (palatalized) consonants.

Quite a few languages make distinctions in terms of plain, labialized, palatalized, ejective, glottalized, or pharyngealized consonants, but rarely (I think) do they contrast more than two of these, including the plain consonant.

There are several sounds that are stereotyped to be hard, and as such are used in conlangs for specific effects eg. the uvular consonants in Klingon.

Is this for a project? I'd be interested to hear about it Smile
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Kiri



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Since yesterday I've found three diferent distinctions:
1. The one Aert told about (plain vs palatalised)
2. Plosives (hard) vs Fricatives (soft)
3. Unvoiced (hard) vs Voiced (soft)

I don't really need The Truth as much as some unifying concept as a basis, because, as Aert guessed, it is indeed for a project.
I want to make two languages that would be related to each other in terms of vocabulary but otherwise the opposite of each other, one such distinction being hard-sounding vs soft-sounding
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Old Irish had thick sounds and thin sounds.
Don't some Dravidian languages have "high-caste" and "low-caste"?
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