Re: Emphatics?

Peter Bleackley a écrit :
> What are "emphatic" consonants? The Language Construction Kit says "Don't
> ask", but that only makes me want to know even more!
Emphatic consonants are pharyngealised consonants, i.e consonants
followed by pharyngeal constriction. To produce a pharyngeal
constriction, you must retract the root of your tongue. You can listen
to pharyngeal consonants of Hebrew on this page :

http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/appendix/languages/hebrew/hebrew.html

from Peter Ladefoged's homepage. From the same page, you can listen to
pharyngealised consonants of Arabic :

http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/appendix/languages/arabic/arabic.html

Julien.

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