Image transcription: Cereal guy meme template. In the first frame he says: “Hmm, wonder whether trills can be aspirated”. In the second frame, as indicated with IPA, he articulates a heavily lengthened preaspirated voiceless bilabial trill, thence spitting the cereal.

And no, you can generally only aspirate obstruents, hence the preaspiration.

  • MasimatutuOP
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    1 year ago

    Nice try, but fricatives are obstruents, not sonorants

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      1 year ago

      Duh, you’re right. I’ll remove the comment above to avoid misinforming anyone.

      Thanks for pointing this out. (Note to self: limoncello and phonetics don’t go well together.)