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

"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:
>         How do you do that? I maybe glottis-disabled but I can't move my
> glottis, or anything further back in the mouth than the uvula,
> voluntarily.
Make a higher or lower pitch sound.  When you do that, you move the
voicebox, which is where the glottis is.  Males can see the glottis move
if they look in a mirror - the glottis is in the Adam's apple.

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