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The common [ʕ] is an approximant and not a fricative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Asher Laufer
Asher Laufer
Affiliation:
The Phonetic Laboratory, Hebrew Language Department, The Hebrew Universiry, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel, e-mail: laufer@hum.huji.ac.il
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As an extensive study of Hebrew and Arabic has revealed that [ʕ] is an approximant in ordinary speech, and as we have no reason to believe that [ʕ] is different in other languages, we should consider [ʕ] to represent not a fricative but a voiced pharyngeal approximant.

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Phonetic Representation
Information
Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , December 1996 , pp. 113 - 118
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1996

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