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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2008.04.15 (07) [E]

> From: M.-L. Lessing <marless at gmx.de>
> Subject: Quantal vowels
>
> Dear Lowlands-Linguists, can anyone tell me in
> simple words what "quantal
> vowels" are? There is this interesting article
>
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn13672.
> The neanderthal's
> voice, to be sure, is no belcanto, but I can't quite
> see the difference to
> today's humans' voices. In fact I know people who
> sound like the
> neanderthaler :-) Is it possible for a today's human
> to speak without
> "quantal vowels"?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Marlou

Well... if nobody is answering: I'm not afraid for
damaging my reputation, so let's give it a try:

There are language/speech sounds/vowels that are
produced by a exactly describable process, and there
is hardly any articulatory variation when we produce
these vowels; these are not the quantable vowels.

And there are vowels that we produce in our
articulatory process and that have room for [some/a
lot] of articulatory variation; these are the
quantable vowels.

vr.gr.
Theo Homan

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