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Re: CB Notation [was: glottals]

From:Paul Roser <pkroser@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 13:00
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:14:17 -0000, Barbara Barrett
<barbarabarrett@...> wrote:

[...]
> > My copy of the full system is, alas, on a dead hard drive, and > Robert Coutts has buggered off to parts unknown for the time > being, but it'll see the light of day eventually. I think it'll > be useful for conlangers as it covers "disordered speech" (such > as a nasal hiss) and "imagined sounds" (auditory illusions) such > as voiceless trills (implosive and explosive - like a cat's > purr!) and so might cover a lot of "alien" phonemes ;-)
I'm curious why you classify voiceless trills as "imagined sounds" since there certainly are real-world languages that use them? Bfowol