Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!

Tim May wrote:

> Arthaey Angosii wrote at 2005-03-05 22:25:08 (-0800)
>  > Multi-comment reply to conserve posting limits...
>  >
>  >
>  > T'ves emaelivpeith René Uittenbogaard:
>  > > Wow - the recordings sound awesome! :) I particularly like the [n:]
>  > > (in line 1), [k_>] in line 6, and |mmavtec|.
>  >
>  > Is my |k'| really an ejective? I thought ejectives were strange sounds
>  > to be found in Semitic languages. I think of |k'| as a pure /k/ sound
>  > (or perhaps an aspirated variant thereof). Phoneticians, correct me if
>  > I'm wrong?
>
> It sounds like an ejective to me (or, at least, it sounds like I do
> when I try to produce an ejective).  This does not surprise me.  If
> your language (i.e. English) doesn't make a distinction of
> glottalization, and you try to produce a pure voiceless plosive
> without any accompanying vowel, the easiest thing to do is close the
> glottis and use glottalic initiation, that is, an ejective.  At least
> that's what I tend to do. ( I remember trying to produce totally pure
> consonants as a child, dissatisfied that they always seemed to come in
> the form of CV syllables... )
That explains why I thought plain unaspirated voiceless stops
tend sometimes to come out preglottalized for me when speaking
Icelandic, especially in the combos /tl/ and /tn/.

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