Re: glottals

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:08:02PM -0500, Alexandre Lang wrote:
> > I have no problem pronouncing [h] at the beginning of a syllable,
> > it only seems hard to me at the end of a syllable.
>
> I don't think it's hard to *pronounce* [h] at the end of a syllable;
> I think it's hard to *hear* [h] at the end of a syllable.  Very little
> audible difference between, e.g., [ah] and [a].
Back home in Sweden there's a Persian girl at Uni, whose pronunciation
of "ohm" mystified me for quite some time. I finally figured she was, quite
logically, saying [o:hm]. It was quite obvious to me she wasn't saying it the
normal way ([o:m]), but nailing down what the actual difference was wasn't
easy.

None of this strictly relevant, since that [h] wasn't syllable-final.

                                                    Andreas