Re: Click consonants
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 18, 2003, 3:14 |
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:06:57 -0600, Eddy Ohlms <etg@...>
wrote:
>> Then if your language _doesn't_ distinguish voicing, the clicks shouldn't
>> distinguish voicing either.
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>That's what I was trying to say. As for your language's two alveolar clicks, I'd say
>secondary articulation would be a big impacter. A labialized alveolar click sounds
>definitely lower pitched.
Yes, I'm pretty sure there's secondary articulation of some kind involved.
Possibly a combination of factors; the higher-pitched one being laminal as
opposed to apical, and possibly also a bit palatalized. But you're probably
right about the labialization (although lip-rounding is physically
difficult for Tricha, their language does have a sort of "rounded" vowel
which is probably pronounced with lip compression as in the Swedish /u/).
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