nepatia Re: [Nahuat-l]

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

In some variants the word-final glottal stop is not a stop at all. In  
the Huasteca, for example, a word-final vowel actually ends in a  
stop, whereas a word-final "glottal stop" just removes the stop from  
the preceeding vowel. This results in an open-ended pronunciation of  
that final vowel with a barely audible non-occluded aspiration. So,  
after taking into account what Joe said, if you did here "cheneh" or  
"patiyoh" you might not have noticed that final "h".
John

John Sullivan, Ph.D.
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On Oct 27, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Matthew Montchalin wrote:

> | Maybe what she said was "nel patiyoh", "It's really expensive".
>
> That makes plenty of sentence!  I'll try to commit that one to
> memory.  But are you using the letter 'h' to denote the glottal
> stop?  Still, I don't really think she was using a glottal stop
> that I could hear.
>
>







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