laryngealized

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adjective

Pronounced with or through constriction or other action of the larynx; creaky.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

adjectivelaryngealized (comparative more laryngealized, superlative most laryngealized)

comparative more laryngealized · superlative most laryngealized

  1. 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 15
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    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
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of laryngealize

Origin

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