Re: Phonology - request for comments

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From: FFlores <fflores@...>
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Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: Phonology - request for comments


> Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> wrote:
> > Also, is there such a thing as
> > an aspirated glottal stop? I think it's possible, but I'm not sure.
> As for the asp. glottal stop,
> I think it's perfectly possible, though it may not be very distinct
> from the non-aspirated one if you emphasize it at the beginning of
> words. I myself cannot say sentence-initial /a/ without actually
> pronouncing [?a], so to distinguish /a/ and /?a/ I would pronounce
> /?a/ = [?_ha].
Oh, by the way, Dhakrathat doesn't have any word-initial vowels, so you can
safely pronounce /?a/ [?a] and /?_ha/ [?_ha] :)