Re: [TIED] breathy voice

From: Marc Verhaegen
Message: 2545
Date: 2000-05-26

>>Piotr & others, are breathy voice consonants generally pronounced at a lower tone? Could these consonants be characterized partly by a lower tone?     Marc
 
>The frequency of vibrations in breathy voice is just below that characteristic of modal voice. But pulmonic voiced stops in general tend to lower the pitch of adjacent vowels.    Piotr
 
Thanks.  I believe Beekes wrote something on stops influencing tone height, and on the incompatibility of certain stops in one word.
 
Marc