Re: Number
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 5, 2001, 21:32 |
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:14:36 -0400, Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
>I was trying to figure out how in the heck you would hear a [?]
>before a vowel <rueful look> since the prof for that class told us
>that technically when you say a vowel (without something else before
>it??) there's always a glottal stop, so if you said [qaItSaref] by
>itself, how would you know? :-/ The somewhat tentative fix for that
>was to make {q} [?] between two vowels, [x] otherwise. <looking
>around hopefully>
Actually it IS possible to pronounce an initial vowel without a glottal
stop -- you just leave the glottis open and just sort of breathe out
smoothly (but that's easier said than done if your native language always
begins words with glottal stops before vowels!). Hawaiian (and presumably
other languages) makes the distinction.
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