Re: Whispered voicing ( was: Re: /p/ versus devoiced b?)
| From: | Pavel A. da Mek <pavel.adamek@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 31, 2001, 8:56 |
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>Well you must be one of those lucky people who can actually recognize and
>produce a voiced /h/! I don't think I know how to make one, and I don't
>think I've ever heard one either (they say <ahoy> has one, but I'm fairly
>sure it's voiceless in this dialect).
IMO, voiced h is essentially mixed vowel used as consonant,
in the same way as [w] is [u] used as consonat
and [j] is [i] used as consonat.
Pavel