7.1574, Sum: In the matter of "cluck" click

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-1574. Thu Nov 7 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  64
 
Subject: 7.1574, Sum: In the matter of "cluck" click
 
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Date:  Mon, 04 Nov 1996 19:09:53 PST
From:  mcv at pi.net (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal)
Subject:  "cluck" click
 
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Date:  Mon, 04 Nov 1996 19:09:53 PST
From:  mcv at pi.net (Miguel Carrasquer Vidal)
Subject:  "cluck" click
 
Dear linguists,
 
In the matter of the "cluck" click, my thanks to Lance Eccles,
Marc Picard and Bonny Sands, who all concurred in recommending
Ladefoged & Maddieson's "The Sounds of the World's Languages."
 
Quoting Bonnie Sands' reply:
 
> All your questions about clicks are answered in Ladefoged & Maddieson's
>"The Sounds of the World's Languages".  In brief, the # (palatal) click
>is laminal; with contact extending from the teeth to the post-alveolar
>region. The ! (alveolar) click is typically apical post-alveolar.
> The cluck sound (where the the tongue hits the floor of the mouth) is
>seen as an allophonic variant of ! in Hadza and Sandawe (p. 253), languages
>which do not contrast ! and #.  We have transcribed this with !!, with
>the second of the two exclamation points being upside down (can't do it
>here). -- in "A Phonetic Study of Sandawe Clicks", UCLA W[orking]P[apers]
>in Phonetics vol. 91, October 1995. (Wright, Maddieson, Ladefoged & Sands).
 
Ladefoged & Maddieson's book, which I had already briefly seen in the book
store, has now definitely moved to top-three position in my purchase schedule.
 
[I have some kind of mental block about consulting reference works from the
library...]
 
Thanks again,
 
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at pi.net
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