--- # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> A few questions about phonetic:
>
>
> In the IPA phonetic charts, I've found that there
> were only a few ejective
> and implosive consonants
>
> Only the bilabial, dental, alveolar fricative,
> palatal, velar, and uvular
> ones
>
> but is it possible to have dento-labial ejectives
> and implosive? or a
> retroflex ones? and maybe a glottal ejective.
Glottal ejective is impossible, because ejectives are
formed by closing the glottis along with the normal
articulation, causing the "pop"
>
> Can all the plosive be aspirated?
As far as I know, yes.
>
> I know that in english, [p], [t], and [k] are
> aspirated but maybe the
> retroflex and the labio-dental can also
>
> And there voiced equivalent? can a voiced plosive be
> aspirated?
Yes.
>
> Are the others consonant? I think an aspirated
> fricative may be possible but
> I'm not sure about nasals and far less about
> approximants and trills
>
This I have no idea about.
> I imagine that if a glottal plosive is aspirated
> it's a glottal affricate..
That would make sense. Sorta.
>
> Is there a difference, in diacritics of the IPA,
> between a labialized
> consonant and a consonant followed by a [w]?
>
> Same thing for palatalized, velarized,
> pharyngealized?
>
> And also for those with a nasal or lateral release,
> is there a difference
> between those and these followed by a [n] or a [l]
>
>
> When a phonetic symbol has a ~ under it, it makes
> that it is "creaky voiced"
> but what does it means?
No idea how to explain this... you say it as if you
have laryngitis, I guess. Like you've something caught
in your throat.
> Same thing when there's a ¨ under the symbol wich
> means it is "breathy
> voiced", what does it means?
...You say it with audible breath?
>
> Also, what means rhoticity indicated with a little
> hook?
An "r" sound.
>
> And a linguolabial diacritic, does it means that the
> contact (for a plosive)
> is between the tongue an the higher lip?
Along with the normal articulation, yes.
>
> Where are articulated the epiglotal consonants?
> There are the voiceless and
> voiced epiglottal fricative and the epiglotal
> plosive in the other symbols
> with the [w]
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html
Here, it's the flap behind the tounge
>
> Why epiglotal consonants do not have their own
> column on the consonant board
>
>
> Thanks if you answer to my questions.
>
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