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Re: THEORY: clicks

From:Rob Nierse <rnierse@...>
Date:Friday, April 12, 2002, 6:55
Ray wrote:

>>A friend of mine has done fieldwork with the Hatsa and >>he reported that they have plain, ejective, aspirated, >>nasalised and nasalised+ejective clicks. > >Interesting. I knew of plain, aspirated, nasalized and, >indeed, voiced(but not nasalized) clicks - they have them >all in the Nguni langs ofsouthern Africa. >But ejective & nasalized-ejective clicks? > >But ejectives are produced by closing the glottis and using >glottalic airstream;the airstream can, of course, receive similar >modifiying aspulmonic airstream passing through the mouth. >But how do ejective clickswork? (I'm _not_ saying they're >not possible - I'm genuinely curious). >Is there simultaneous closure of the glottis and the velar region >with a release of both and modification of the resultant airstream >being made witheither the lips or the foreparts of the tongue.
Yesterday I spoke with Alex de Voogt, who did fieldwork with the Hatsa and I have to correct some of the thins I wrote earlier. he said that the clicks are not *ejective*, but *glottalized*. That makes it very much easier to pronounce, isn't it? Rob

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