Re: Alternation of Airstream

I didn't think of this as a separate phoneme, but as more of a system
to allow breathing and talking at the same time.

On 10/22/05, wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> wrote:
> Tim May nevesht:
> >David J. Peterson wrote at 2005-10-20 11:07:58 (-0700)
> >  > Veritos (?) wrote:
> >  > <<
> >  > Yet another of my odd ideas (the previous was the sign-language as
> >  > vocal language concept).  I was thinking of having an alternating
> >  > airstream, so you speak as you both exhale _and_ inhale.  In this way,
> >  > you could breathe without pausing.  Sure, it sounds weird (eigh
> >  > mhhhidd yee-elp = I need help), but would it be the slightest bit
> >  > feasible?
> >  >  >>
> >  >
> >  > According to Jack Black, yes.  This is called using ingressive air,
> >  > and it certainly can be done (go ahead, try it), but no language
> >  > uses it productively (that is, for the whole utterance, rather than
> >  > just implosives).
> >
> >The point is less that it isn't used for a whole utterance, than that
> >no language has ingressive _pulmonic_ phonemes.  That is, initiated by
> >inhalation into the lungs.  Implosives and clicks are ingressive
> >sounds, but the initiation is glottal or velar respectively.
>
> There is one language that does. Damin, the ritual language used by the
> Lardil of Australia, included one pulmonic ingressive sound, among other
> phonological oddities.
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> -Wayne Chevrier
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