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Re: THEORY: clicks

From:Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>
Date:Sunday, March 23, 2003, 20:14
Joe wrote:

>/q_</ sounds vaguely click-like. However, it hurts to say it.
The SAMPA chart I'm looking at gives _< as the symbol for "voiced implosive". I can pronounce q_> ("uvular ejective"), which I think would mean "start to make a q , let the pressure build up behind the uvula and then let it 'pop' out." The result is very click-like, but it tickles the gag reflex. The sound isn't too odd (it might appear in a few natlangs for all I know), but it could make alliterative poetry rather messy. M

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