Re: glottals
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 30, 2004, 2:50 |
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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.
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