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Re: Linguistics: Final /?/ and /h/

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, June 20, 2005, 10:28
Roger Mills skrev:
> Rob Haden wrote: > >>Recently I discussed word-final /?/ and /h/ with someone on another list. >>We were talking about how common those phonemes are in word-final >>position. I argued that they are not very common cross-linguistically, >>but >>the other person said that they are. Does anyone know here? >> > > My gut feeling would be that /?/ is probably "fairly common", /h/ much less > so, but I couldn't really cite any statistics. > >
In Sohlob [?] is the word-final allophone of /h/ simply because I found myself pronouncing it that way. -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)