laryngealized en · ADJ
Etymology
From laryngeal + -ize + -ed.
Meanings
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Pronounced with or through constriction or other action of the larynx; creaky.
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: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most laryngealized | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more laryngealized | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |