Gueldemann (was: Clicks)
Alexandre Enkerli
enkerli at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 17:01:54 UTC 2006
Probably because of the umlaut, the PDF wasn't showing up with
"Guldemann clicks" in Google. Just in case other people need this
reference...
Here's Gueldemann's page:
http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gueldema/projects.html
And article:
http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gueldema/pdf/ProtoClick.pdf
Alexandre
http://enkerli.wordpress.com/
Martin Walsh wrote:
> The use-of-clicks to-avoid-spooking-game argument (and more) appeared in:
>
> Knight, A. et al. 2003. African Y chromosome and mtDNA divergence
> provides insight into the history of click languages. Current Biology
> 13: 464-473.
>
> And is discussed critically in:
>
> Guldemann, T. undated. Clicks, genetics, and "proto-world" from a
> linguistic perspective. [a pdf of which can be found online with a
> quick google]
>
> The whole of TG's paper is of relevance, but see especially #5.1 'A
> cultural advantage of click phonemes?'.
>
> Martin Walsh
> Department of Social Anthropology
> University of Cambridge
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Kephart" <rkephart at unf.edu>
> To: <linganth at cc.rochester.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Linganth] Clicks
>>
>> (2) The assumption that these clicks were (consciously?) adopted as a
>> way to avoid "spooking game"; and the subgrievance: are clicks really
>> less "spooky" than other consonants? (To be fair, if there's a
>> squirrel on my back porch and I make alveolar click sounds, it'll
>> often sit up and look at me as if trying to figure out what sort of
>> grotesque squirrel I might be, giving me time to shoot it if I wanted
>> to*; but if I just say something like, "yo, squirrel!" it'll usually
>> run off.)
>>
>
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