In articulating the glottal fricative [h] the lips and tongue are relaxed to a neutral position. The nasal port is closed. The vocal folds are not vibrating. The opening between the vocal folds ia wide enough to allow the breath stream to be forced through, producing unvoiced friction.
A popular theory assumes that we form the vowel in the mouth before starting the [h] as in home. If we did that in pronouncing home we should indeed hear a fricative with the resonance qualities of [ou]. But we do not take the position of [ou] before starting to say [h]. We say [h], [ou], and [m] in chronological sequence.
What we hear for [h] is a brief glottal friction, instantly abandoned, analogous to the [u], quickly abandoned, which is what we hear (or attend to) of [w]. If there were as many [h]’s as there are vowels, we should have a big task learning them. We learn just one [h], which is the start of a rush toward a vowel.
In articulating the glottal fricative [h] the lips and tongue are relaxed to a neutral position. The nasal port is closed. The vocal folds are not vibrating. The opening between the vocal folds ia wide enough to allow the breath stream to be forced through, producing unvoiced friction.
A popular theory assumes that we form the vowel in the mouth before starting the [h] as in home. If we did that in pronouncing home we should indeed hear a fricative with the resonance qualities of [ou]. But we do not take the position of [ou] before starting to say [h]. We say [h], [ou], and [m] in chronological sequence.
What we hear for [h] is a brief glottal friction, instantly abandoned, analogous to the [u], quickly abandoned, which is what we hear (or attend to) of [w]. If there were as many [h]’s as there are vowels, we should have a big task learning them. We learn just one [h], which is the start of a rush toward a vowel.
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