Meanings
comparative more laryngealized · superlative most laryngealized
- human sciencesPronounced with or through constriction or other action of the larynx; creaky.
In these words, as in similar forms in related Chadic languages, laryngealized voicing is often audible in the adjacent vowels
1971, Peter Ladefoged, Preliminaries to Linguistic Phonetics, page 151 more example
It is well known that back vowels such as [ɑ] tend to be more laryngealized than front vowels such as [i] (local phenomenon).
2007, Anton Batliner, Richard Huber, “Speaker characteristics and emotion classification”, in Christian Müller, editor, Speaker Classification I, page 143
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of laryngealize
Origin
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