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Re: YACQ: Plausibility of a sound change

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Saturday, February 17, 2001, 3:35
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:12:41PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> dirk elzinga wrote: > > I agree that it doesn't seem very plausible, if only because > > glottalization and aspiration involve antagonistic vocal fold > > gestures. > > I dunno ... ejectives kinda sound like aspirated stops. I could imagine > the proto-Kluna hearing those as aspirated, if they acquired it as an > L2.
[snip] Excuse my ignorance... what *is* the difference between an ejective stop and an aspirated stop? :-) T -- Let's eat some disquits while we format the biskettes.

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Ed Heil <ejh@...>
John Cowan <cowan@...>
Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>"Voiced aspirates" (was Re: YACQ: Plausibility of a sound change)