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Re: glottals

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Friday, January 30, 2004, 2:50
Alexandre Lang wrote:
> Is it phonetically legal to have [aa]? i always thought it wasn't > possible to have 2 vowels together in a row...
It certainly is possible. Japanese has quite a few vowel sequences, including distinctions between forms like /aa/ and /a:/, altho that is not distinguished in kana. There does, however, seem to be a slight glottal constriction between identical vowels. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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Alexandre Lang <allexpro@...>
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