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Re: That pesky H again (was: varia)

From:Ed Heil <edheil@...>
Date:Monday, February 7, 2000, 2:49
raccoon@ELKNET.NET wrote:

> > At 08:05 +0000 6.2.2000, Ed Heil wrote: > > >> Are you saying that [d] involves coarticulation of something like [@] > > >> (nonsyllabic perhaps)? > > >Well, yes, but I think that "coarticulation of something like [@]" is > > >usually called "voicing." > > Exactly! :-) > I guess what I meant was, is voicing the same as nonsyllabic [@]?
To produce [@], one produces voice, keeps the nasal port closed, and holds the oral articulators in a particular position (a fairly slack one). To produced voiced consonants or other vowels, one also produces voice, but one holds the oral articulators and nasal port in whatever positions are appropriater for those consonants or vowels. So I think that voicing is only one characteristic of [@]; to talk about voicing as co-articulation of [@] one would have to essentially redefine [@] to get rid of all specifications except voicing, in which case you have simply turned [@] into a synonym for voice. ---------------------------------------------------------------- .................... edheil@postmark.net ....................... "In the labyrinth of the alphabet the truth is hidden. It is one thing repeated many times." -- AOS ----------------------------------------------------------------