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

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Odegard" <markodegard@...>
>
>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.

[snip]

>MO: I'm not sure what 'breathy-voiced' means either,
>but it's what I associated with the (male->version) of
>a 'Bensonhurst accent'. This is what passes as the
>modern 'Brooklyn accent'. Males >move their register
>down low, perhaps unnaturally low, with a forcefulness
>of enunciation that >generates a strong air stream;
>it's not really added aitches, but the force with which
>it is said.

There is a program called "IPA-Help" that you can download (I can't look for
the URL at the moment). It can play sample sounds of most of the IPA
consonants and vowels, plus the diacritics. There's examples of /b/ and /a/
performed in creak and breathy voice.

AFAICT, breathy voice is similar to your description, but my
stage-stereotype of an elderly-character's voice doesn't match what I know
of creak so I can't say.


*Muke!

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