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In a sense, every (English?) word that ends in a vowel eventually ends in a 'p' when you close your mouth. Hup! Nope! Welp! Yep!
by jrootabega 5y ago
In a sense, every (English?) word that ends in a vowel eventually ends in a 'p' when you close your mouth.
Hup!
Nope!
Welp!
Yep!
- oneoff786 5y agoI can’t tell what this is trying to say
- tgv 5y agoIp dop seep thep ideap.
- plank 5y agoI! Agree! Completely! (3 instances on where ending in a vowel does not give a ‘p’)
- debesyla 5y agoI have a guess OP meant that you tend to close your mouth while jumping. But it's just my guess...
- School-Cotton 5y agoBecause closing your mouth makes a “p” sound, at least in languages that accept “unreleased stops”, like (American?) English does.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoBut the unreleased stop is not a [p], it's just a glottal stop. The same thing happens to /t/ and /k/.
- orthoxerox 5y agoHaha, no.
- dylan604 5y agonope
- gspr 5y agoWhat?
- schoen 5y agoIt would if you had to continue the airstream indefinitely until your mouth was closed¹, but we can also stop the airstream of a vowel without closing our mouths at all (I guess either by using a stop further back in the vocal system, or disengaging the muscles that are producing the airflow²). So in practice, there are other ways to end the production of a vowel without producing a /p/. ¹ I haven't thought clearly about how nasals affect this, but it seems like still another possibility is to allow air to exit through the nose, producing /m/ instead of /p/. ² When I try to pay attention to what I'm doing when I deliberately stop a sustained vowel, it seems like I'm using glottal or velar stops much more often than I would have thought. Interesting!