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Re: new(?) phoneme discovered

From:René Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...>
Date:Monday, March 13, 2006, 17:35
On 3/12/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> > > > > > 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?
Contract it, yes, but just the right amount. Most of the time I have to "search around" a bit before it catches. René