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Re: glottals

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 15:03
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