Click Consonants

Bonny Sands, Ph.D. (1995), University of California, Los Angeles, is an adjunct at Northern Arizona University. An expert on the historical linguistics and phonetics of African languages, she has done field work in on click languages in five different countries.

"[F]or those wanting an in-depth look at many of the issues regarding clicks, including some in-depth case studies of individual languages, this volume will be a very useful place to look." ~ Michael Cahill, (Ph.D., Ohio State University), on Linguist List 32.2603 (August, 2021).

• Editor’s PrefaceList of Illustrations1 Click Consonants: an IntroductionBonny Sands2 Click PhonologyWm. G. Bennett3 The Interaction between Click Consonants and Tone in TsuaTimothy K. Mathes4 Click Loss and Click Insertion in FweHilde Gunnink5 Perception of Non-native Click Consonant Contrasts: Implications for Theories of Speech PerceptionCatherine T. Best6 Studying Clicks Using Real-Time MRIMichael Proctor, Yinghua Zhu, Adam Lammert, Asterios Toutios, Bonny Sands, and Shrikanth Narayanan7 Recording and Measuring Acoustic Attributes of ClicksSean Fulop and Richard Wright8 Nasalized Accompaniments in Proto-Khoe and in KhweE.D. Elderkin9 Click Loss in Khoe-KwadiAnne-Maria Fehn10 Click Replacement and Loss in JuAnne-Maria Fehn11 Production of Click Sounds in Acquired Apraxia of Speech: a View to the Motoric Nature of the DisorderAnita van der Merwe and Mollie Steyn12 The ArtiVarK Click Study: Documenting Click Production and Substitution Strategies by Learners in a Large Phonetic Training and Vocal Tract Imaging StudyScott Moisik and Dan Dediu13 Notes on Child Acquisition of Clicks in HadzaKirk Miller14 Paralinguistic Use of Clicks in ChadFlorian Lionnet15 False Alarms: Spurious Reports of Click ConsonantsKirk MillerIndex