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

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 1:25
Ed Heil <edheil@...> wrote:

> I don't believe ejective nasals are possible, because the glottis > cannot be used to produce an airstream in the nasal tract, only the > oral cavity. And there can be no voice with an ejective, because the > vocal cords are shut completely in order to produce the ejective > pressure.
I've been trying to follow the discussion and I don't think I have anything to add, except this: I think I *can* make an ejective nasal /n_?/, (orally) unvoiced... or maybe I'm not releasing both stops at the same time. Is something horribly wrong with my vocal/nasal tract? :-O --Pablo Flores http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/