Re: Implosives
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 4, 2004, 1:47 |
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Mark P. Line wrote at 2004-05-03 20:36:17 (-0500)
> Trebor Jung said:
> > Just wondering, are there any other implosive-type consonants than
> > bilabial
> > [b_<], alveolar [d_<], palatal [J\_<], velar [g_<], and uvular [G\_<]?
> > Maybe
> > infricatives?
>
> Implosives have stop stricture, so "infricatives" wouldn't be
> implosives. The five you name (the second one is actually
> dental/alveolar) are the five listed as possible implosives in the
> IPA. I think I've encountered a glottal implosive as a speech sound
> somewhere.
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Implosives are produced by glottal suction, aren't they? So shouldn't
a glottal implosive be impossible (as should a glottal ejective)? You
can't decompress the space between the glottis and itself.
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