Re: Click consonants

Paul Bennett wrote:

> 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......:-((( What you describe
sounds more like an "ejective k with (rapid or near-simultaneous) alveolar
co-articulation"; at least I can do it, as well as variants with any two
dissimilar voiceless stops/affricates. Rather fun to do.......  Some African
languages are said to have co-articulated /kp/ (egressive) and /gb/
(ingressive), but not ejective AFAIK

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