Re: [TIED] Beekes' PIE Consonants & Glottalized Consonants.

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From: Mark Odegard

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Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 10:30 PM

Subject: Re: [TIED] Beekes' PIE Consonants & Glottalized Consonants.

You'll find answers to most of your questions in my posting on airstream mechanisms and phonations.

 

Creaky voice is quite frequent as a prosodic phenomenon in English. You probably use it yourself. Many people, especially men, lower their voice into a very low murmur at the end of any sentence terminating with a low falling intonation. You can almost hear the individual pulses of the vocal folds. That's creaky voice.

 

Piotr

 

PS Read the last sentence aloud making it sound really final, and you'll very likely hear the last syllable ("...voice") glide down into creaky phonation.

 

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MO: I've heard of 'creaky-voiced' but have no experience relating this description to an actual sound. One is tempted to think of this as the stage-voice you hear associated with elderly characters, a voice with a waver, but this is probably wrong.