Re: Hellenish oddities

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Raymond Brown tleiseiç:
>> But the combo [p't'] becomes IMO trickier than the one I've described
>> above.  I can see (and experience) how glottalic friction can be
>> momentarily interrupted by a secondar closure [t]; I do not see how a
>> glottalic closure can be so interrupted.
>
>When I make that combo, I do it thus:
>1.  Labial closure
>2.  Glottal closure
>3.  Glottis raised
>4.  Labial opening
>5.  Glottis (still closed) lowered
>6.  Alveolar closure
>7.  Glottis raised
>8.  Alveolar opening
>9.  Glottal opening
>
>I don't know if that's the way they do it, of course.>
I seem to make the cluster in the same way, except no step 5; on the
contrary, the glottis keeps rising.  'Taint easy.