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Re: Many consonants

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Thursday, November 8, 2001, 10:21
> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 20:54:31 EST > From: David Peterson <DigitalScream@...> > > In a message dated 11/7/01 4:55:39 PM, alrivera@ALUMNI.SOUTHERN.EDU writes: > > << Isn't the glottal/creaky voice IPA-symbolized by a tilde below > the character in question? (in X-SAMPA it's /_k/ IIRC) >> > > There's a difference between glottalized consonants and creaky voice. > Creaky voice is a tilda below whatever sonorant--you can have a > creaky-voiced, glottalized [z], if you wanted. Glottalized is represented > either by a putting a glottal stop before the glottalized segment (so that > "hit" in English would be [hI?t]), or as a super-script--I've seen both.
Danish has creaky voiced vowels as well, especially in men's speech --- but they aren't in free variation with clear voice, so I only mark them in very narrow transcriptions. Danish does not have phonemic glottalized consonants, however. The st