Re: The Story of Guper the Foolish Troll

Matt wrote:
>Now, now.  No need to be sarcastic.  Is it possible that when you
>talk about voiced glottal stops and glottal approximants you really
>mean voiced *pharyngeal* stops and approximants?  Pharyngeals are
>produced by constricting the pharynx, between the velum and the
>glottis.  As far as I know, voiced pharyngeal stops are found in
>certain dialects of Arabic.
I hear that in some dialects, they are epiglottal rather than
pharyngeal.

>Don't know about pharyngeal approximants, but I can certainly
>imagine them...
The Danish "r" is reported as being in fact a pharyngeal
approximant. As for it being gurgly, I don't know, perhaps. I'm used
to the sound of it. But I agree, it may well be one of patrick's
so-called glottal sounds.

Note also what I wrote in an earlier post, they could also be
epiglottal. Either way, they are both sounds that are produced in
the radical region between the velum and the glottis.

Still trying to sort out the confusion,
-kristian- 8-)