Abstract

University of California, University of the Witwatersrand Los Angeles The click sounds of two Khoisan languages, Nama and !X66, 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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