Re: Sounds in Conlangs

J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
> That thing you can see is the uvula. The epiglottis is also required for
> swallowing. It doesn't close the nose, but the lungs. It can be seen (but
> unfortunately not moved) e.g. on the following page as a small thing
> behind
> the tongue pointing upwards:
>
> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html
What a neat site!! We've needed that. Too bad it doesn't include
"retroflexed"  :-((

Re epiglottis: in phonetics class 40 years ago, I don't recall anyone even
suggesting that it was possible to produce sound there.  Times change I
guess.  I wasn't aware that we had conscious control of the epiglottis.