Re: trQal
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 14, 1999, 16:26 |
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FFlores wrote:
> Could you explain me what creaky voice is? I imagine it,
> but I'm not sure.
It's hard to explain without also hearing it. But basically, it's
something you can do with the throat, it's like voicing, only the larynx
is more constricted, leading to a "creaky" sound.
> Is the gnash a phoneme in any natlang?
Nope. All phonemes in natlangs deal with some modification of an
airstream.
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