Re: That pesky H again (was: varia)

On 4 Feb 00, at 17:19, raccoon@ELKNET.NET wrote:

[snip Ray on prosodic [h] in Greek thrikos and eko]
> Also, I find the idea of suprasegmental aspiration interesting. But is there
> really such a thing as an aspirated vowel? I've had an idea to make final
> vowel+h become an aspirated vowel, which would then aspirate the previous
> consonant but lose aspiration on the vowel:
>
>         H
> tah -> ta: -> tha:
>
I'd say that "breathy voiced" vowels would probably meet your description
of "aspirated vowels" very well.  I started briefly on an orthography &
phonology (and some naive phonotactics) for a language with phonemic
breathy voice, but the details have been lost in the mists of time,
unfortunately.

I can't describe the sound of breathy voicing very well, only to say that
they sound "even more voiced" than ordinary vowels, and that they
accidentally cause aspiration and a small amount of voicing in preceeding
consonants when I pronounce them.


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