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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Ejectives.....
In-Reply-To: millert@grad.csee.usf.edu's message of 9 Feb 1995 01:00:49 GMT
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In article <3hbpg1$fjk@mother.usf.edu> millert@grad.csee.usf.edu
(Timothy Miller) writes:

>When I pronounce [p'] and [t'], they come out ok, but my [k'] and [q'] come
>out sounding like affricates... am I doing something wrong?

Well, maybe, sort of...

This, as it happens, is a very common development of velar and uvular ejectives
(as, for example, in the history of Georgian:  /q'/ is frequently affricated,
and Old Georgian /X'/ has merged with Old Georgian /q'/ to yield the modern
phoneme).

So it depends on which language you are trying to imitate.  If you are just
trying to learn how to produce ejectives, it's a matter of practice, that's
all.
-- 
Rich Alderson		[Tolkien quote temporarily removed in favour of
alderson@netcom.com	 proselytizing comment below --rma]

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