Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:04:22 -0000, "P&G" <petegray@...>
wrote:

> > It's not a matter of opinion. Acoustic phonetics is a branch of
>> applied phyisics.
>
>But how a particular wave function is perceived depends on the speaker and
>the language. One person's /d/ is another person's /t/, and so on. So
>some linguistic questions cannot be adequately and totally answered by an
>appeal to physics.

I know. But the question was a physical one: do the vocal chords
vibrate during the closure of a "voiced" stop or not. In French, the
answer is "yes". In English, it depends.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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