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Keepongoing



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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 2009 5:07 pm    Post subject: Question for the Linguists Reply with quote

When I listen to Korean it sounds like it has a lot of "stops" when compared to English. Am I right or wrong about this?
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PostPosted: Sun May 24, 2009 5:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They use a lot of stop consonants, like [p], [t], and [k], often replacing labiodental consonents, like [f] with these. They don't use any glottal (like the i in Hawaii) or uvular stops (like the [q] in Qatar) as far as I can tell.
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