Re: Dr. James Cooke Brown

[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