Re: Click consonants
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 7, 2003, 20:35 |
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On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 14:39:35 -0500, Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
> Paul Bennett wrote:
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>> Project WC8 (still needs a name) has a single alveolar click, and an
>> alveolar velaric egressive, which is nick-named "the anti-click" in my
>> notes. It has a click-like sound, and is produced by the same mouth-
>> shape,
>> but with the release of positive pressure instead of an implosion. I
>> might
>> very well sound like a simultaneous /k/ and /t/.
>>
> I can't do clicks in the flow of speech at all......:-(((
Practice. What I do is repeat /@!@/, /@!@/, /@!@/, and so on, for whichever
consonant, until I get something I'm happy with. Likewise /b7b/, /b7b/,
/b7b/ for vowels, and also things like /V7/, /7V/, /V7/ and /o7/, /7o/,
/o7/.
> What you describe
> sounds more like an "ejective k with (rapid or near-simultaneous)
> alveolar co-articulation";
There's no glottal component. A pocket of air is trapped between velar and
alvoelar closures. That pocket is then put under increased pressure (as
opposed to the decreased pressure of a click), and then the alveolar
closure is released. The velar closure is silently released instantaneously
after the "fricative click" sound occurs.
These sounds were discussed on CONLANG very recently, which is frankly what
gave me the impetus to include one in a language.
Paul