Re: Sonority of 'h'?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 30, 2003, 19:28 |
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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.
/BP 8^)
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