bad phonetics makes the Style Invitational

[Bethany K. Dumas]

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Alice Faber wrote:

>Paralinguistic sounds don't have to follow phonotactic rules. English
>doesn't have phonological clicks, but there are several
>paralinguistic clicks (tsk tsk, whatever it is that people use to
>command horses, etc). English doesn't have phonological velar

Yes - that is a language that horses understand well, even from a
distance.

Bethany