[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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