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Does the ‘voiced epiglottal plosive’ exist?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Asher Laufer
Asher Laufer
Affiliation:
The Phonetic Laboratory, Hebrew Language Department, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
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Extract

In the IPA 1989 Kiel Convention it was decided to include the voiced epiglottal plosive in the IPA chart in the ‘Other symbols’ section (IPA 1989: 69). Accordingly [ʡ] “voiced epiglottal plosive” appears in the published chart in the middle page of the same issue under ‘Other symbols’. I claim that a “voiced epiglottal plosive” is an ‘impossible’ sound.

Type
Phonetic Representation Revision of the IPA
Information
Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , June 1991 , pp. 44 - 45
Copyright
Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1991

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