Re: New Conlang: S4

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:13:27 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:
>> Uvular accompaniments of clicks are produced by a back closure
>> that is uvular rather than velar, and can pretty much occur in
>> all the varieties that velar accompaniments do (ie, plain,
>> aspirated, affricated, pre-nasalized, ejective, ejective affricate,
>> etc.)
>
>Hmm.  I have to practice that!  Currently, I cannot produce clicks
>without closing the velum, too.
If I understand you correctly, you have difficulty producing non-nasal/ized
clicks?

>It seems that my tongue does not know
>how to produce a closed volume that extends from the tongue tip back
>to uvular position.  Interesting.  Are there any sound samples
>available?  If possible to utter, an alveolo-palatal uvular click must
>sound extremely nice and full.  But how to do that?? :-)))
I am not sure of the url, but I think that Peter Ladefoged has some audio
files of clicks from Nama and/or !Xoo on the web.

One thing I noticed in practicing clicks with both velar and uvular
accompaniment is that if you can keep the front articulation in roughly the
same place (uvular contact seems to retract coronals somewhat, especially
the (inter)dental), the most noticeable difference between a plain voiceless
unaspirated velar and uvular accompaniment is a change in the pitch of the
click - +uvular clicks are slightly lower in tone.

To Herman Miller: are the high & low tone alveolar clicks in Qiira Triicha
distinguished by velar vs uvular accompaniment, or do you achieve the pitch
change in a different way?

Regards,
Bfowol

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