Re: THEORY: clicks

David Peterson wrote:

><< Also, about clicks. They say, for example, that a bilabial click is
whenyou make the kissing sound. But what about when you make a poppingsound
with both your lips? They're two very different sounds,yet...represented
bythe same symbol? The same goes for the alveolar and post-alveolarclicks.
>>>
DISCLAIMER:  I'm no expert on clicks; they got short shrift in Phonetics
class long, long ago......
If I'm understanding you right, the kiss sound involves sucking the air in,
the pop sound blows it out, similar to an ejective.  So given a primary
closure (lips) and secondary closure in the oral tract (at the velum IIRC),
and pressure built up between the two, it must have to do with the order in
which the 2 closures are released.  Just impressionistically, I'd say the
kiss has "ingressive" air-stream, the pop "egressive"; if there's only one
"bilabial click"symbol, it could probably be modified with a diacritic.

I find I can make the same distinction at alveolar position, ingressive the
common "tch-tch" or "tsk-tsk" sound, egressive sort of a [tT]; but it seems
to be difficult/impossible? at any other POA.