It's so much fun!
| Grace's sound, roughly | Phonemes she uses the sound for (in rough "English-y" notation) | |||
| stops | ||||
| d | /t/ and /d/ | |||
| b | /b/ and /p/ | |||
| d (back a bit) | /k/ (in "car"). We sometimes think we hear a proper "k" here but we're pretty sure it's a "d" variant, a bit like the "d" in an Indian accent. | |||
| p | /p/ in a whispered tractor sound and sometimes in "papa" (grampa). We debate whether this is a "p" or a "b", it may be an unaspirated "p" (and sometimes she whispers the whole word in an attempt at aspirating her "p"?) | |||
| nasals | ||||
| n | /n/ | |||
| m | /m/ | |||
| fricatives & approximants | ||||
| ʒ (zh) | /s/, /z/ /ʃ/ (sh),/tʃ/ (ch) /dʒ/ (j) | |||
| w (some version of it) | /ɹ/ (r) and /w/ - as in "wawa ("flower" or "water") | |||
| θ (th) | /s/ (word-terminal only) - as in "bus" | |||
| x? ʃ? | /tʃ/ (ch) (word-terminal only) - as in "beach" | |||
| Trills & funny sounds | ||||
| [R] (uvular trill) | Used for the "back" K, as in "quack" and "chloe") | |||
| [ʙ] (bilabial trill) | Used joyfully and frequently for silliness | |||
| r̼ (linguolabial trill) | Used joyfully and spitfully for silliness | |||
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