Exhale versus Inhale

[rlazok]

Source: My husband and I are having an intellectual discussion about L2 reading. Should students free read authentic texts of their choice or graded readers? This discussion was prompted by my 510 readings (Cobb).

GJ: If we assume your position…
me: inhale [ʃk]
GJ: stares Listen. pause Listen. I'm speaking. If we assume your position…

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[rlazok]

My first guess was Phonetics, but I'm going to have to revise to Speech Acts.

shk

[anonymous]

These kinds of noises are not really linguistic in the same way as words, but they definitely impact meaning. Even just inhaling can do this. It's interesting how strong his reaction was.