On 5/14/2019 10:51 AM, Daniel Dadap wrote:
The speaker was Dr. Okrand himself, and the lack of aspiration was systematic enough that it seemed quite intentional. (FWIW at least one of the apparently non-aspirated /p/ sounds might have been a /b/, but it’s a little hard to tell.)
I would not take Okrand's pronunciation of dialectical speech in /Power Klingon /too seriously. It was recorded before the publication of KGT. It was trying to make the dialectical speech sound silly and wimpy compared to the standard dialect. The tape is a very tongue-in-cheek rendition of a traveler's audiotape, and no dialect-native Klingon appeared to be consulted for it. Non-aspirated *p* in Morskan? Maybe, but you'd need more than /Power Klingon/ to conclude that. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name