Re: THEORY: Semivowels
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 9, 1999, 4:34 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> > Well, technically I suppose they could, because nasality is merely
> > the opening up of the nasal cavity an an additional cavity for
> > the resonating of the sound. But I've never heard or read about
> > any language that does this. They can, and often do, have
> > voiceless equivalents, however. My dialect of English has four
> > glides: /w/, /w_0/, /j/, and /j_0/, as does the Atkan Aleut I'm
> > studying right now in class.
>
> Interesting... what English words do you pronounce with [j_0]? I've never
> heard of it.
For me, /j_0/ appears only where a previous /h/ + /u/ existed prior to the
Great Vowel shift. So, "human", "humus", etc.
It's certainly not an /h/, unless you're really stressing it.
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