Timeline for Plausible sounds for a species without cheeks
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| Sep 28, 2015 at 17:42 | history | edited | ckersch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2015 at 14:44 | comment | added | DeveloperWeeks | So, with this "set" of sounds, and the limit of english, the creatures would just double up on sounds? I think a facsimile map of sounds could be: m => n, b => h, p => g, f => th, v => kind of a back of the throat phlegm noise? | |
| Sep 28, 2015 at 13:53 | history | edited | ckersch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 14:29 | vote | accept | CoolCurry | ||
| Sep 23, 2015 at 23:26 | comment | added | Joshua Taylor | Just because we use lips, and teeth, and other parts of our mouth to make those sounds doesn't mean that another creature would have to use those same features. Parrots don't have lips or teeth, but can make lots of the same sounds that we do. They just do it differently. See some of the comments in A clever parrot learns to combine phonemes (not). | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 22:34 | comment | added | KRyan | You got your labiodental definition upside-down: “labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.” Which is good, because I suddenly felt really weird about doing it that way if the definition was the opposite. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 20:16 | comment | added | BartekChom | Youstay Igo answer is also right. Consonant [w] and vowels like [o] and [u] (in English this means oo in both boot and good, o in go and top, u in cute, ou in out, but not the vowel of blood, son and cut) are rounded - one must round his lips to pronounce them correctly, but this is not as necessary as for fricatives and stops. Howewer, it would be impossible to distinguish between, for example, German ü and i. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 19:20 | history | edited | ckersch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2015 at 19:19 | comment | added | ckersch | Edited to try to explain the jargon. Let me know if that makes more sense. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 17:21 | history | edited | ckersch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2015 at 16:04 | comment | added | Youstay Igo | Such a labiosophical approach! 90% of it flew over my head which is cool (things I fail to understand appear all the more cooler and smarter to me). Up-vote, anyway. Bonus points if you explain your answer without using all the hard terminology ^^^ | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 15:53 | history | answered | ckersch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |