Re: Mbasa Vowels
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 5, 2001, 2:48 |
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In a message dated 10/4/01 6:53:47 PM, exponent@TECHNOLOGIST.COM writes:
<< The book says it's a pharyngeal fricative...isn't what you described
earlier (choking sound, etc) the epiglottal stop? >>
No, no, no... It's an approximant, a glide. According to my phonology
teacher (and I agree), there is no such thing as a voiced pharyngeal
fricative, or if there is, it's not found in any of the world's languages;
what they really have is an glide. But a stop? No, I didn't intend to
describe a stop... It's very much a continuant. Did I screw up?
-David