that sound is actually [?\]
On 4/30/05, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> It's difficult for English speakers to segment out, even though we often
> produce it in casual speech. Have you checked out the various IPA sites with
> sound samples?? I've found some techniques for producing [h\]:
> 1. as the difference between glottal stop onset to a vowel vs. smooth onset,
> esp. [a]-- [?a] vs. [..a]. Such a contrast exists in some Polynesian
> languages, and Arabic (the letter is called _ayin_ IIRC).