Talk:Unreleased stop

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[edit] Only stops?

I've just edited the Korean language article:

Only seven consonant allophones are found at the end of syllables: [p̚, m̚, t̚, n̚, l̚, k̚] and [ŋ̚]. They are all unreleased.

/p, m, t, n, k/ and /ŋ/ are certainly stops, whether they be oral or nasal stops. But I don't think I've ever heard /l/ being mentioned as a stop. But fianl /l/ sounds unreleased to me, at least in Korean and English. It sounds released to me in the French pronunciation of the word elle.

So I want to ask if unreleased laterals are also possible. Is that true?

Am I onto something, or am I confused? --KJ 06:21, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

The phonemes {{IPA|[n, m, ŋ] are not normally considered stops. Release is only meaningful for a stop. If there is no occlusion, how can it be released? In French elle, there is a shwa after the l. −Woodstone 13:44, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I was confused about the occlusion bit, and was just thinking about "articulators staying in touch" as in Korean. --Kjoonlee 14:20, 27 June 2006 (UTC)