| From: | Tamas Racsko <tracsko@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 27, 2004, 14:17 |
On 27 Sep 2004 Rodlox <Rodlox@HOT...> wrote:> what are the differences between [h\] and [H\] ? ...since they both lack a > descriptive on the X-SAMPA website (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA).[h\] is the easiest: it is simple the _voiced_ variant of "normal" [h], i.e. pronounced with vibrating vocal cords. I do not know the assimilation rules of your native language but in some languages "normal" /h/ phoneme is pronounced in this way next to voiced consonants (e.g. possibly in words like |adhere|). Czech and Slovak |h| is [h] by default. [H\] is a tricky sound. You must to do the same as in case of [h] but the epiglottis is used to make a narrowing not the glottis. Useful sites: <http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ngaribi/Anglais/SpirantesFricatives.htm>, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_epiglottal_fricative>, <http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConson ants/appendix/languages/agul/agul.html>