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Re: Tonal inflection?

From:Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 0:08
On 26/08/08 02:32:30, Alex Fink wrote:

> * aspiration. Aspiration's really rare on things that aren't stops. > Occasionally one finds aspirated fricatives, but I've never heard of > aspirated implosives
Wouldn't that be physically impossible? Aspiration is air going out, implosion is air coming in. You could probably have /h/ after an implosive, but I would guess it'd be perceived as a separate segment. -- Tristan.