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@favorite-phoneme-creature
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
/ɾ/
it's my favorite to pronounce and I love the messiness of the rhotic family as a whole.
nice :) also i'm pretty sure the only reason the rhotic family is treated as a family is the orthographic representations being related to eachother lol
what's your favorite phoneme? @favorite-phoneme-creature
M has already answered this so I’m going to
[ʃ] is definitely one of my faves and definitely my favourite pulmonic consonants.
[ǃ] is another favourite of mine. I like clicks
It has just now occurred to me that I like these because of their paralinguistic uses… shushing and tsking people.
oh thanks now i have a mnemonic for remembering that <!> is the symbol for the alveolar click. when you tsk someone it's like you're going "!" at them :))
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
This is tough but I'm a big fan of all L-like sounds and how fluid (pun intended) they are. Right now I'd say it's a tie between
retroflex /ɭ/ because it's not in Sanskrit but it is in many of its daughter languages! Also the letter in Devanagari looks like an infinity sign (ळ)
voiceless fricative /ɬ/ because it's in Icelandic and I just find it fun to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull to flex on people
thanks for the ask :)
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
you ask too much of me! just one?
it's a toss-up between || and ɬ. both are included in my conlang ise'xhanaani!
I'm a big fan of the alveolar lateral just because it's.... fun to say, i guess? and because it's really cool that it pretty much only shows up in african languages. and it's DIFFICULT to pronounce when you don't come from a linguistic background that uses it. it gets me sometimes, but when i correctly pronounce it, it's like a "yesssss" moment.
ɬ is great for a similar reason as well. it's so distinctive and fun to say. your tongue is in the location for L, but it's so aspirated that you can't really hear it. big fan all around.
everyone is free to provide more than one phoneme if they really want to but this is just the way i have decided to ask the question, for brevity. i'm not sure i can pronounce /||/ correctly lol. it ends up being on either the right or left side of my tongue, which seems kinda... unlateral of it
/ɬ/ is kinda like a competitive glottal fricative to me
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
oh, nice blog you got there! I'm partial to fricatives. Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative [ɕ] occurs in the word for 'happiness' in my native language, as well as in the name of a feel-good comfort dish in my heritage language. which is almost the same thing anyway.
Voiceless palatal fricative [ç] occurs in the German diminutive suffix -chen and in adjective suffixes -ig and -lich. words like kuschelig ['kʊʃəlɪç] (cuddly) and Erdbeerchen [ˈeːɐ̯t.beːɐ̯çən] (little strawberry) sound extremely cute to my ear and feel tender in my mouth. whoever thinks they sound harsh dni, okay
thanks :D i share your love for palatalish fricatives and also think they sound cute is your native language in question a chinese language? i see the word for happiness is xìngfú which is apparently pronounced /ɕîŋ.fǔ/
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
Oral (not nasal) ingressive velar trill. People who say velar trills are impossible are not catgirls lmao. Best way to purr on command.
If we're sticking to phonemes that actually do exist in language... let's say... oh dang that's hard. ɐ (central near-open unrounded) is nice, ʉ (central close rounded) is charming, and ə (good ol' true central schwa) is classic.
WAIT NO. I KNOW MY FAVOURITE VOWEL. HOLD ON IT'S HARD TO GET THE SYMBOL.
ɯ̟ᵝ, the compressed close near-back unrounded vowel.
That's my true favourite phoneme, after the oral ingressive velar trill (voiced or unvoiced).
i'm clearly too uncatcreature for this but how are you trilling your soft palate....
central vowels my beloveds!!!
wow i am just now learning about compressed v. protruded rounding... surely this doesn't make any salient acoustic difference though right? AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY UNROUNDED CO-OCCURING WITH COMPRESSED??
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
/Q/ (japanese moraic obstruent)
wow this is the second time someone responds with an abstraction instead of a classic phoneme :)) for others like me who did not know what that means:
A common phonemic analysis treats all geminate obstruents as sequences starting with the same consonant: a "mora obstruent", called the sokuon (促音) in Japanese, which can be phonemically transcribed with the non-IPA character /Q/.
my favorite phoneme is "s". yes, I'm a basic bitch
it's ok you're just ssssnakemaxxing
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
at first i saw this and was like ?? I Don’t Know BUT i do have an answer
kinda basic but im very into rhotic sounds, specifically the ones in Māori that are tapped/flapped. being an NZE speaker it’s interesting, because these phonemes exist in our accent in intervocalic t + d sounds (bu[tt]er or a very languid way of saying ‘i [d]on’t know’), but you hear a lottt of people struggling with implementing it to Māori integrations, particularly place names (Whangā[r]ei or Tima[r]u). commonly ((anecdotally)) people will revert to approximants — like a standard English ‘r’ — or they’ll overcompensate into a trill.
a lot of it has to do with racism in Aotearoa and the general neglect of care and effort when speaking Māori, HOWEVER there is an interesting aspect where monolingual English speakers perceive these sounds as being ‘difficult’ despite incidentally using them in their dominant language. best example of this is looking at a place name like Rotorua, where it starts with a tapped/flapped [r] — it’s harder to implement when there’s no preceding vowel ((assuming the sentence you’re saying doesn’t have one, i.e. It’s raining in Rotorua)) because that sound doesn’t necessarily come up in NZE as a post-vocalic((??)) phoneme.
i most likely butchered explaining this lmao but the rhotic phonemes of Māori and NZE are very inch resting
edit i cannot put the ipa symbols in bc im lazy and on my phone and at work and not good at this
i love how some ppl i ask start their answer with "this might be basic but ___" cause having a favorite phoneme at all is definitely not basic XD the "subconscious racism or this sound just doesn't happen in that environment in your native language" question is so interesting!! side note but i feel like this is the same type of complicated set of factors that makes monolingual english speakers instinctively stress the second syllable in "Kamala"-- both cause they're used to foreign loanwords that have that stress pattern, and cause they expect the name to be exotic, ie a combination of linguistic schema and some sort of prejudice
ooh i also often use the tapped r in "i don't know" and "what did i do" :)
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
ʀ
epic phoneme fr ok pardon my aside but i gotta know, if you listen to french, do you like how it is currently realized in french as either [ʁ] or [ʁ̞]? cause i feel like my french teachers hyped me up for the trill only to leave me dissapointed when i keep hearing it not actually trilled in speech
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
honestly i guess ɹ
or technically ɹ̠ i think, the one aspect of general american english i love is the rhoticity specificity, it feels savory and technical to talk with a bunch of starting and ending r's quickly and it feels silly to say r's in slow motion, it's like i'm rushing through a tunnel
based. i share your appreciation for rhotic english. have you heard that many americans realize that phoneme as retroflex?
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
Big fan of /ɬ/ personally!
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
/ɣ/ and /ʒ/ are kind of both my favorite? i was asked about a month ago (in real life) what my favorite vowel was and i still don't really have an answer to that but i DO have baseless consonant opinions
honorable mention: bilabial trills + fricatives. also really nice
/ɣ/ seems to be getting popular too in my answers. good, good :)) wow if only i were asked irl about my favorite vowel. maybe i need to be the change i want to see in the world and ask one of my linguistics classmates this lol
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
oohhhhh this is a toughy. BUT im going to say!!! either the voiceless uvular plosive (q my beloved) OR. the voiced uvular trill. which ive adopted as a sort of wordless greeting. like that cat mrrp sound. i make it when i enter a room or acknowledge someone or am just expressing curiosity.
that's neat that it's like a greeting to you!!
side note i can barely produce any uvular plosives despite having no trouble with the fricative and maybe even trill
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
I LOVE this question. It's the schwa, my beloved <3
a classic favorite :))) ok re: your tags and the definition of a phoneme. phonemes are language/dialect specific. so the debates you're seeing about whether schwa is a phoneme *in english* center around whether it's the underlying sound, or just a realization of another phoneme that happens in a particular environment. i don't really care much whether a sound is considered a phoneme in any specific language/dialect, i mostly just want to know what people's favorite *speech sounds* are. so some people answer my asks with their favorite allophones or phones and i love that. one person even gave me a phonological rule for theirs. but i think using the words 'speech sound' or 'phone' or 'phoneme or allophone' instead of just phoneme may confuse some people. i'm asking anybody on here that mentions enjoying phonetics or something adjacent and seems like they'd know what i'm talking about so that's why you were asked :))
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
phoneme???? Uh. whatever the fuck is going on with the TRAP vowel up in minesoeta. I like that. Chreap [tɹ̝̊ɛɐp̚].
wowow based. i love diphthongization
what's your favorite phoneme?
@favorite-phoneme-creature
the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬ] :D tho the labiodental approximant [ʋ] is a close second
/ɬ/ is popular on this webbed site :)) and i am also a fan of /ʋ/
