Re: Ygyde is easier to learn than any other language

li [Paul Bartlett] mi tulis la ...

> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, simple_language@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote (excerpt):
> 
> > If the auxlang is used as an auxiliary language, we can estimate the
> > ease of pronunciation from natural languages. If a phoneme (sound) is
> > rare in natural languages, it is probably difficult to pronounce.
> 
> I don't think this follows.  Consider the sounds rendered in ASCII
> SAMPA notation as /T/ and /D/ (i.e., the linguodental fricatives in the
> English words 'think' and 'this').  They are not common in the world's
> languages, to the best of my knowledge, but just ask any native English
> speaker how easy they are.  After all, /D/ occurs in the most frequent
> single word in the language!  Ease or difficulty of pronunciation
> probably depends in large measure on training during childhood
> acquisition of language, not on some abstract notion of difficulty or
> frequency of occurrence.

It's true /D/ and /T/ are usually not pronounced by foreign
speakers.  They usually approximate them [d] or [t] and
something [z] or [s] without much trouble in comprehension.

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