~Yeshuewu

[Herb Stahlke]

Mark,

I can't get a trill there.  Could you describe what you're producing?

I'll have to read more Cherryh.

Herb

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Mark Mandel<thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com>
> wrote (quoting Herb Stahlke)
>> > "Trilled k"? Â You must have an interesting vocal tract.
>>
>> Would that be like the sound the alien hunter makes from the movie "The
>> Predator"? Strange dialect indeed!
>
> I don't think Mr. Z's vocal tract is as twisted as his view of
> language. However, it *is* possible to produce a velar (not uvular)
> trill. I have done so for reading aloud from C.J.Cherryh's Chanur
> novels, in which the language of the (nonhuman) kif includes a sound
> transcribed as "kk" in words and "kk-k-k-k" as a prolonged
> interjection. It is a somewhat fronted velar, but definitely not
> palatal.
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> Mark A. Mandel
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