Re: USAGE: Louis? C'est lui

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > But I wouldn't call that a fricative added at the end of
> > a word, but more the fact that when a word stops with a vowel, my breath
> > tends to continue after the vowel, with the same articulation as the vowel
> > but without any *strength* (something like a colored [h]).
>
> What about the vowels other than /i y u/?  Would a word ending in /e/
> have something like [ee_0]?
Most English words already do -- word finally there is a brief release
of air that conforms to the preceding vowel if there is one.  Essentially,
a voiceless equivalent of the same.

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