Talk:Breathy voice

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"Proto-Indo-European is traditionally reconstructed with a breathy-voiced series of consonants, but no aspirates. This typologically highly unusual situation, attested only in Kelabit in Borneo, has caused historical linguists to look for other possibilities."

This is factually wrong. According to Robert Blust, Kelabit voiced aspirates are NOT breathy-voiced stops, but fully voiced stops sometimes realized with a secondary voiceless release followed by aspiration. N.B., some authors propose the same thing for PIE, to account for voiceless reflexes of the aspirate series.201.37.78.132 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:34, 24 August 2009 (UTC).

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"murmured" vs "breathy"

Voice Quality Symbols contrasts "murmured" with "breathy", but links each to this article. Here, the two appear to be distinguihed by the following definitions:

murmur (breathy voice)

"the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape."

whispery voice (=VoQS murmur)

"The vocal folds [...] vibrate⸂s⸃, as in modal voice, but the arytenoid cartilages are held apart to allow a large turbulent airflow between them."

These two appear to mean the same. Or is there any way in which the vocal folds can be "adjusted to let more air escape" without relaxing the arytenoid cartilages? (Arytenoid muscle defines its action as "The Arytœnoideus approximates the arytenoid cartilages, and thus closes the aperture of the glottis, [...].") ◄ Sebastian 13:17, 28 November 2018 (UTC)