Re: Frankenlangs

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:39:28 -0700, Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
wrote:

> bob thornton wrote:
>>
>> g (velar click, no IPA symbol)
>
> I think there's no IPA symbol because it's anatomically impossible.
> Clicks are velaric ingressives, formed by stopping airflow at the place
> of articulation and the velum, pulling the tongue root back to create a
> vacuum between them, and then releasing the stop. You can't have a
> velaric ingressive velar stop — there would be no "between".
I can make a sound at the velum which is certainly auditorily in the click
family, if not articulatorily. I think it might be a glottalic ingressive
velar stop, but it's far from /g_</ and definitely sounds more like a
click than anything else. Then again, after practicing /g_</ a few times,
there's no glottal movement associated with ... um ... /k!/ or however you
want to notate it. It has the same suction feel to it as a click. It's
hard to explain, I guess.




Paul