Re: ontology of glottalized segments?

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:00:19 -0500, Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>Does anyone know any phonetic or phonological facts about how
>glottalized consonants arise?  I've heard that acoustically they
>sometimes are treated as "hypervoiceless".  I'm trying to come
>up with a way for them to arise naturally in Phaleran historical
>phonology without having to make reference to borrowings from
>C'ali, which, of course, has plenty of them, and would thus be too
>easy.
>
>(Dirk, do you know?)
Not having any access to reaserch or theoretical works myself, I'd also be
interested in seeing possible answers.

My exposure to glottalized consonants comes from doing exercises in a book;
I've never observed the critters in their native habitat. But, based on
that, when I tried to put them in words, it seemed that they were much much
easier before a glottal stop, or some other voiceless sound. Likewise,
implosives were much easier _after_ a glottal stop or voiceless consonant.
Could this have something to do with the question?

I

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