Re: Click consonants

--- Paul Roser <pkroser@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:08:53 +0000, Peter Bleackley
> <Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:
>
> >Staving Eddy Ohlms:
> >>Does anyone but me use click consonants in their
> conlangs? What clicks do
> >>you use? What click accompaniments?
> >
> >Magzhelyagon is planned to have the following
> >
> >Bilabial, labiodental, postdental (ie tongue behind
> closed teeth),
> >postdental with bilabial postclosure (the same as
> the last but let the
> >suction of the click pull your lips closed)
> alveolar, postalveolar, lateral
> >and glottal.
>
> The postdental with bilabial postclosure is an
> interesting twist, though
> whatever you make at the glottal point of
> articulation won't technically be
> a click - clicks by definition involve two closures:
> a dorsal closure
> (velar or uvular) and an anterior closure (labial to
> palatal).
>
> Bfowol
If he's making the same sound I was told wasn't a
click when I called it a glottal click, there *are*
two closures -- the dorsal closes off the nasal cavity
and the anterior is at the forward edge of the velum
where it joins the hard palate.  I guess if it really
isn't a click it must be some kind of suction stop or
some such.  It is (or can be) quite loud.

Adam

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