Re: Number
| From: | Jesse Bangs <jaspax@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 6, 2001, 3:00 |
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> 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>
>
> YHL
I like the tentative fix myself, but I don't think there's a problem with
having phonemic initial /?/. *My* phonetics teacher said that it is
possible to pronounce a vowel-initial word without a glottal stop, though
he might have said that no languages actually make use of that
distinction. If you want to keep {q} fundamentally a stop, you could
replace it with something stronger initial positions, like a pharyngeal
stop.
Jesse S. Bangs Pelíran
jaspax @juno.com
"There is enough light for those that desire only to see, and enough
darkness for those of a contrary disposition." --Blaise Pascal
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