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Re: THEORY: clicks

From:makeenan <makeenan@...>
Date:Sunday, March 23, 2003, 19:03
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>I missed this before: > >> makeenan wrote: >> > and the uvular into K > >*Uvular* click? Nothing behind the velum can possibly be clicked. >You could have a pulmonic ingressive uvular stop, like a gasp, but >not a click.
Thanks John, I often don't know the terminology. If by ingressive you mean that the air is sucked back in rather than out thats what it was. It *sounded* like a click. and It was formed at the uvular position........ [Duke makes sound to himself over and over].... maybe its the soft tissue further forward. Whats that called? -Duke
>-- >John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org >To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There >are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language >that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. > --_The Hobbit_

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