Re: THEORY: h huffnpuffery (was: RE: varia)

And Rosta wrote:
> IIRC, Catford (my favourite textbook-writing phonetician) recognizes a
> tripartite distinction between voiceless fricative, voiced fricative, and
> approximant, where approximants are inherently voiced, their voiceless
> counterparts being inaudible because there is insufficient constriction
> to generate turbulence,
Then how can I hear [l_0] in [pl_0ej]?  If pronounced by itself, /l_0/
is certainly nearly impossible to hear - but so is /h/.  One detects
those sounds by their influence on neighboring sounds.

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