Re: That pesky H again (was: varia)

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.

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