Re: Prosody-only utterance

From: Miguel Carrasquer (mcv_at_wxs.nl)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:03:16 +0100

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:44:24 -0000, "Douglas G. Kilday"
<fufluns@chorus.net> wrote:

>I use the nasalized forms often, and regard them as [?m?m] 'no' and [?mhm]
>'yes'. Since I regard them as part of English speech, I consider the pair
>to prove that English has a phonemic glottal stop, as /?/ and /h/ provide a
>minimal-pair contrast.

In that case, do you consider [t!] (dental click) to be
speech?

I was reminded of the click because I remembered Ruhlen
gives Proto-Khoisan YES: Khakhea N/N\. !Kung N/N\ and NO:
Khakhea N\N/, !Kung N\N/.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@wxs.nl

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