Re: new(?) phoneme discovered

> > The description sounds like something I've been pondering.
> > The glottal consonants can be interpreted as stand-alone phonation
> > and nothing else, right?
> >
> > [h] = voiceless
> > [h\] = breathy voiced
> > [?] = glottal closure
> >
> > I've thought of interpreting [@] as the voiced one... I think you
> > may've hit on the one corresponding with creaky or tense phonation?
>
>Well, in my interpretation every vowel counts as the voiced one..
>And I don't know about "tense phonation" but it's definitely not
>creaky.. it's a whistle.
OK, not creaky. But you do need to contract your glottis, not widen it,
right?


>I made a few recordings: http://www.ewoudnet.nl/ruittenb/mp3/
>Note that it takes an effort to make the sound, and I haven't quite
>got the "hang" of it: it doesn't catch on right away, and still has
>a [h] sound in it.
>René
That sounds surprizingly strong! I can make something similar, but only
ingressivly & with great effort, and it still comes out much weaker.

John Vertical

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