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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Help, I can't click!
Message-ID: <D6KI8p.H2t@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 15:12:23 GMT
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In article <D631Iv.JA@world.std.com> dbucher@world.std.com (Daniel B Bucher) writes:
>There are three different click articulation places --

Four, actually.  Five, if dental and alveolar are counted separately.

>alveodental, palatal,

lateral (either alveolar or palatal) and labial.  Here's the distribution
from Ian Maddieson's survey (_Patterns of Sounds_), which doesn't include
any languages with labial clicks:

              Zulu Nama !Xu~ (hello, Scott)

{ctl,dnt,afr}         +    +
{ctl,alv,stp}         +    +
{ctl,alv,afr}    +
{lat,alv,afr}    +    +
{ctl,pla,stp}    +    +
{ctl,pal,stp}              +
{lat,pal,afr}              +

>and velar I believe.

Can there be a velar click?  A click involves two points of contact,
and since one of them must be the velum anyway, the other has to be
something else.

-- 
`"Haud oan there a meenit," says the king tae Joseph, "I've been thinkin."'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
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