Re: glottals
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 30, 2004, 17:48 |
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En réponse à Alexandre Lang :
> >
>Shouldn't the glottal constriction be phonemic in the IPA though? It's
>still phonetic, isn't it?
Not really. It's just a physiological thing, so has neither phonetic nor
phonemic value. Writing [aa] implies it enough. And if you want to be
extremely precise, you can always use the "syllable break" sign [.] (i.e.
write [a.a]).
Christophe Grandsire.
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