> From: Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>
> > I don't really understand how the glottalized series would come to
be
> voiced
> > in RA, unless my assumption that by "glottalized" you mean
"ejective"
> is
> > wrong.
> Well, you pronounce ejectives with your glottis shut, but have to
> release it for e. g. the following vowel. On the other hand, when
> pronouncing voiced stops, the glottis is still narrowwed, while to
> produce unvoiced stops it has to be completely released.
> So if the speaker anticipates the release of glottis a bit (a kind
> of assimilation, although the terminus might be misused here), they
> pronounce a voiced stop instead of a ejective. Sound shift by
> assimilation happens in many languages.
>
> Stefan Hensel
>
>