Re: Sonority of 'h'?

Quoting BP Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 16:59 26.6.2003 +0200, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> >[h] is a voiceless glottal fricative, i.e. the fricative equivalent of
> [?],
> >just like [x] is the fricative equivalent of [k]. It even has a
> voiced
> >counterpart, hooked-h in IPA, [h\] in X-SAMPA.
>
> NB [h\] doesn't have modal voicing (which would be impossible] but
> breathy
> voicing.  Indeed [h\] **is** essentially breathy voicing.
What _is_ modal and breathy voicing, articulatorily?

                                                        Andreas

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