Re: glottals
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 1, 2004, 23:24 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> 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.
Out of curiosity, I searched Google for "baai" (written バアイ) and
"ba:i" (written バーイ). "Baai" is normally written in kanji (場合), but
Google found 10,900 instances of "baai" in katakana (バアイ), and 16,500
instances of "ba:i" (11,200 in the word "baiba:i" バイバーイ).