[B-Greek] Fricatives and Aspirates
Thomas Thackery
tthackery at comcast.net
Wed Aug 9 14:36:08 EDT 2006
I was perusing William Mounce's BBG text, and came across something
curios at §10.19.
Mounce calls F, Q, and X <φ, θ, χ> "aspirates." What is
interesting is that he teaches clearly, using Americanized Erasmian
sounds, that these phonemes are indeed fricatives [φ] [θ] [χ] and
not aspirates [pʰ] [tʰ] [kʰ]. I have never read of fricatives ever
as being called aspirates. This must be a typo or perhaps he is
relating this to a very early or theorized form where these were
aspirates [pʰ] [tʰ] [kʰ]---I haven't found comment in his text yet.
Thomas Thackery
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