Re: Nasal semivowels/fricatives?

So it's basically be a voiced stop followed by a
glottal stop?  I can see that.

A "true" ejective is a voiceless stop produced *while*
a glottal closure is held, which is followed by what
sounds like a glottal stop as the glottal closure is
released.  But it sounds pretty much like a voiceless
stop followed immediately by a glottal stop.

So I can see people taking a voiced stop + glottal
stop sequence and considering it a single phoneme, the
voiced counterpart of an ejective.

Cool.  Thanks, Nik. I was really puzzled by that one.
Hope you're right, cause your explanation makes sense
to me. :)


--- Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> Ed Heil wrote:
> > * I understand that voiced ejectives are said to
> in
> > fact exist, but as I understand ejectives that
> would
> > be a contradiction in terms -- the necessary
> glottis
> > settings for ejectives and voice are not
> compatible.
>
> From what I understand - and I may be way off here -
> "voiced ejectives"
> are really sequences of voiced stops followed by
> ejectives
>
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