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Linguo-pulmonic
Pulmonic-contour clicks, also called sequential linguo-pulmonic consonants, are consonants that transition from a click consonant, click to an ordinary pulmonic consonant, pulmonic sound, or more precisely, have an audible delay between the front and rear release of the click. All click types (alveolar click, alveolar , dental click, dental , lateral click, lateral , palatal click, palatal , retroflex click, retroflex , and labial click, labial ) have linguo-pulmonic variants, which occur as both stops and affricates, and are attested in four phonations: Tenuis consonant, tenuis, voice (phonetics), voiced, Aspirated consonant, aspirated, and murmured (breathy voiced). At least a voiceless linguo-pulmonic affricate is attested from all Khoisan languages of southern Africa (the Khoe languages, Khoe, Tuu languages, Tuu, and Kxʼa languages, Kx'a language families), as well as (reportedly) from the Bantu language Yeyi language, Yeyi from the same area, but they are unattested elsewher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contour (linguistics)
In phonetics, contour describes speech sounds that behave as single segments but make an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another. Such sounds may be tones, vowels, or consonants. Many tone languages have contour tones, which move from one level to another. For example, Mandarin Chinese has four lexical tones. The high tone is level, without contour; the falling tone is a contour from high pitch to low; the rising tone a contour from mid pitch to high, and, when spoken in isolation, the low tone takes on a dipping contour, mid to low and then to high pitch. They are transcribed with series of either diacritics or tone letters, which with proper font support fuse into an iconic shape: . In the case of vowels, the terms diphthong and triphthong are used instead of 'contour'. They are vowels that glide from one place of articulation to another, as in English ''boy'' and ''bow.'' They are officially transcribed with a non-syllabic sign under one of the vowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |