Re: Ejectives, was Re: New H/G lang?

As I mentioned before, I was totally misremembering the way the vocal
tract is put together... But the conviction from which I spoke came
from experience, an experience which has now cast doubt upon the
status of what I believed were my ejectives.

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Ed doesn't know everything, but he hasn't figured that out yet.
Please break it to him gently.              edheil@postmark.net
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Nik Taylor wrote:

> Ed Heil wrote:
> > [w'] I can believe, since it's produced in the oral cavity.  But [m']
> > -- I'm trying it, and I'm finding it physically impossible.  Could it
> > perhaps be [m?] instead?
>
> Is there some difference between different people's vocal tracts?  I
> have absolutely no problem making glottalic airstream be nasal, in fact,
> I can do both implosive and ejective nasals alternating, by simply
> moving my glottis up and down over and over again.
>
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