Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Throat Shut. Closure of the throat-passage creates an element which is used in some dialects as a substitute for k. This is the same effect which is heard at the commencement of a cough. French phoneticians call it coup de la glotte. The name of this element is Throat Shut. Of course this sound cannot be vocalized, because it has no issue of breath. Aspirate—H. A frictionless emission of breath through the open throat is the effect of the Aspirate H. H may be considered as a non-vocal form .of all vowels, because the position of the mouth is assimilated to that for the vowel that follows the h. Thus h before e may be called a formative e, before o a formative o, etc. Whisper. Such formative vowels are silent, because the throat passage is too open to give frictional audibility to the breath. True non- vocal vowels receive a degree of compression in the throat which renders them distinctly audible. This effect is called Whisper. Trills. When the organ acted on by the breath is lax and free to vibrate, it is made to shake and rattle. Thus the throat yields a trill—of the epiglottis; the soft palate yields a trill—of the uvula; the forepart of the tongue yields a trill; and the lips yield a trill. These are called Throat Trill, Back Trill, Point Trill, and Lip Trill. Clicks. In ordinary utterance the breath is in continuous outward flow, with momentary interruptions from shut positions of the mouth; but the elements called Clicks are suctions. The breath is held in, either, at the throat, or by a Back position of the tongue, while the anterior organs—the forepart of the tongue and the lips—move suctively from shut positions. The resulting sounds are elements of speech, in Zulu and other African tongues. Interactional Clicks. The Clicks are also used b...