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Linguistic Phonetic Descriptions of Clicks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Peter Ladefoged  and
Anthony Traill
Peter Ladefoged
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Anthony Traill
Affiliation:
University of the Witwatersrand
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Abstract

The click sounds of two Khoisan languages, Nama and !Xóō, are described in considerable phonetic detail in order to demonstrate some of the complex, language-specific phenomena that must be taken into account in linguistic descriptions. Phonological features that can be used to classify these sounds are given; but it is shown that the detail of the phonetic phenomena can be recovered from the phonological specifications only by a considerable number of ad-hoc statements.

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Language , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , March 1984 , pp. 1 - 20
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Copyright © 1984 by Linguistic Society of America

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