The physiological & pathological relations of the voice and speech / by John Syer Bristowe.

Date:
1880
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    which is, in fact, that of the particular vowel or consonant with which it is associated. In other words, the aspirate which precedes an ordinary or sonant vowel is the surd, voiceless, or aspirated form of that vowel ; and the aspirate which precedes a voiced or sonant consonant is the surd or voiceless representative of that consonant. In this point of view, the letter h placed before a vowel implies that two vowels are sounded consecutively : namely (first), the unvoiced vowel, which, by the closure of the glottis in the progress of its utterance, becomes converted into (second) its vocal equivalent, or that which alone is usually regarded as a vowel. Further, it implies, that whenever a consonant is supposed to be aspirated, its sonant form is simply preceded in utterance by its surd form, or in some cases, perhaps, that the surd form of the consonant is alone pronounced. Thus, in the case of the aspirated %vhicJi or what, the tvh is either the surd zv followed by the sonant or the surd zv alone; and in the case of the word hevi), which I have previously shown should be spelt phonetically by the consonant represented by the German ch,y, and the vowel indicated in English by oo, the sound which h represents is in reality that of ch, or the surd equivalent of the y, which in the pronunciation of the word follows it. I am not aware that any other consonants are aspirated in English; but all other con- tinuous consonants admit of aspiration in the sense of having the sonant consonant preceded by its surd variety. It is thus, I think, in regard to the Welsh // E