Re: Lenition
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 24, 2002, 20:36 |
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En réponse à JS Bangs <jaspax@...>:
>
> I think this is backwards. In your most natural state the vocal cords
> are
> relaxed and voiceless--this is equivalent to silent breathing. When
> you
> begin to make a speech-gesture, they constrict into the voiced state,
> and
> voiceless sounds are performed by re-relaxing the vocal cords.
>
Then you must have extremely strange vocal chords which are stiff at rest
state. You just *cannot* have relaxed vocal chords which don't vibrate as soon
as you breathe! I am perfectly aware of what happens in my throat, and I am
perfectly sure that the rest statr of the vocal chords is indeed relaxed, and
that it is in that state that they vibrate naturally to make voiced sounds. And
I do have to stiffen them to prevent the vibration and get voiceless sounds.
Constricting the vocal chords produces creaky voice with me, which is something
completely different.
Christophe.
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