Re: Sonority of 'h'?
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 26, 2003, 22:37 |
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Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
> In Mohawk, it seems it's treated
> more like any other voiceless fricative (does Mohawk have phonemic /?/?),
> and it probably patterns with them.
I don't know much about Mohawk specifically, but I seem to
recall that it does have a phonemic /?/, and phonemic /?/ is
a general characteristic of the language family.
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