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Re: The Story of Guper the Foolish Troll

From:dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Monday, March 1, 1999, 15:37
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Kristian Jensen wrote:

> 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-) >
Now that I think about it, I do notice that my voiced glottal stop is more epiglottal than my glottal stop. Gods! I need a course in linguistics! --Patrick