laryngealized
laryngealized adjective: pronounced with or through constriction or other action of the larynx; creaky. Also the simple past and past participle of laryngealize.
Adjective
laryngealized (comparative more laryngealized, superlative most laryngealized)
- Pronounced 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 vowels1971, Peter Ladefoged, Preliminaries to Linguistic Phonetics, page 15
- 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
Also used as
laryngealized is also the simple past and past participle of laryngealize.
Forms of laryngealized
| comparative | more laryngealized |
|---|---|
| superlative | most laryngealized |
Origin of laryngealized
From laryngeal + -ize + -ed.
Questions about laryngealized
- What does laryngealized mean?
- Laryngealized means pronounced with or through constriction or other action of the larynx; creaky.
- What part of speech is laryngealized?
- Laryngealized is an adjective.
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