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Re: [lojban] Dr. James Cooke Brown
From: Steven Belknap <sbelknap@UIC.EDU>
>The weakness of the close-comma in vowel pairs is that
>linguistically it introduces a semi-vowel. (Lo,is -> /lowis/). By
>devoicing the glide and maintaining the airflow to prevent a
>word-ending glottal stop or pause, which we mark with the apostrophe
>instead of the close-comma, the glide tends to sound more like an
>"h" (/lohis/), which is why I teach the two marks together in
>explaining why Lojban apostrophe is not really "h".
>
>lojbab
But the alternative orthography does equate <h> with <'>, no?
Steven Belknap, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria
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