Re: THEORY: clicks

And Rosta wrote:
> It's also comparatively hard to see how clicks would fall out of a
> language; they don't readily seem to decompose into anything else.
My guess is that they would simply change voicestream mechanism from
velar ingressive to pulmonic egressive, e.g., /t!/ -> /t/

> * The comparative rarity of bilabial clicks, compared to their frequency
> in paralanguage.
> * The way that in click languages the oral/nasal contrast in clicks
> reflects the markedness pattern of that contrast with stops in general,
Considering that clicks are found only in a single region, those might
just be coincidental.  :-)

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