Re: YACQ: Plausibility of a sound change
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 18, 2001, 9:48 |
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On fre, feb 16, 2001 at 10:05:35pm -0600, Ed Heil wrote:
> 'ejectives,' also called 'glottalic egressives' I think, are produced with
> the glottis shut, using the pressure of the air *above* the glottis, not
> pressure from the lungs. After the stop is produced, the glottis is
> released, producing a glottal stop.
Uhm you don't actually *have* to open the glottis... unless you have
to produce a non-ejective sound afterwards of course. Just keep the
glottis shut and keep on p', t', k' ts', tS' and tr'-ing, it is only
limited by how long you can hold your breath really.
Ejectives have an excellent, crisp, hollow/echoish sound, and they're
not really that rare either. Also of interest is/are the theory/theories
that clicks satrted out as misheard ejectives, and at least some clicks
do sound very much like some ejectives.
t.