Re: Ant: Re: Linguistics: Final /?/ and /h/

Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

> Hi!
>
> Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> writes:
> >...
> > An Iranian girl I know insists on pronouncing 'ohm' as [o:hm].
>
> Interesting.  I fail to do that.  For me, that's either [o:hm_0] or
> [o:hm=] or [o:h\m].
>
> How do I switch by voice back on in the same syllable?  Maybe it's
> just a question of how to define 'syllable'. :-)
I suppose it's one of those 1.5-syllabic words. :p

Seriously, when I try to imitate it, I end up with [o:hm=], but it sounds
monosyllabic when she says it.

                                               Andreas