Develop your perception, production and understanding of the various
states of the glottis by practicing all the phonation types in initial,
medial and final positions:
Initial | Medial | Final | |||||||
1. Glottal stop |
ʔɑ |
ɑʔɑ |
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ɑʔ |
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2. Creaky voice |
ɑ̰̰ɑ |
ɑɑ̰̰ɑ |
ɑɑ̰ |
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3. Breathy voice | |
ɑ̤ɑ |
ɑɑ̤ɑ |
ɑɑ̤ |
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4. Whisper/voicelessness | |
ɑ̥ɑ |
ɑɑ̥ɑ |
ɑɑ̥ |
Some real words to practise (note that the acute accent indicates high
pitch):
Shona (western) |
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Shona (eastern) | |
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láha | ‘to throw away’ | |
mɦépó | ‘wind’ | |||
kúɦa | ‘to come’ | femɦá | ‘to smell’ | ||||
ɦála | ‘to be full’ | femá | ‘to breathe’ | ||||
hoko | ‘monkey’ | mɦuká | ‘animal’ | ||||
muká | ‘to get up’ | ||||||
nɦáŋga | ‘pumpkin’ | ||||||
naŋgá | ‘peace’ | ||||||
Burmese | |||||||
mjɔ:dɛ: | ‘it floats’ | m̥jɔ:dɛ: | ‘he floats it’ | ||||
lwaʔ | ‘be free’ | l̥waʔ | ‘set free’ |
Audio examples:
The Mazatec examples were downloaded from the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. The other examples are from a database of audio examples relating to the IPA Handbook.