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Clicks in Ndebele
An acoustic research on the production of Ndebele click-sounds by non-native
speakers
© Nikelwa, Thorsten and Dennis [WS 02/03 How to handle speech]
Hypothesis
Believing that it is a problem for non-native speakers of Ndebele to produce the typical click sounds, we decided to take a closer look into the range of
difficulty dependent on the position(ing) of the click, i.e. whether it occurs in the initial position or non- initial position of a word and which vowel follows it
Research
• We concentrated only on the acoustic features of click production
• Some people were asked to repeat the recordings of the original sounds
• Later we compared the recordings to the original sounds
Clicks in Ndebele
Alveolar clicks:
• 1st word “iqala” to begin • 2nd word “kuyaqhanda” it is cold• 3rd word “qalisa” to start• 4th word “qhedisa” to finish
Clicks in Ndebele
Alveolar lateral clicks:
• 5th word “ixoxo” frog• 6th word “xabana” to argue or fight• 7th word “xholani” to forgive
Some Examples
“iqala” spoken by Nils
“kuyaqhanda” spoken by Dennis
“qalisa” spoken by Morten
“qhedisa” spoken by Elke
“ixoxo” spoken by Dennis
“xabana” spoken by Stephen
“xholani” spoken by Morten
“kuyaqhanda” [native]originally recorded by niki
“kuyaqhanda” [non-native]originally recorded by stephen
“qalisa” [native]originally recorded by nikelwa
“qalisa” [non-native]originally recorded by morten
“ixoxo” [native]originally recorded by nikelwa
“ixoxo” [non-native]originally recorded by dennis
“xabana” [native]originally recorded by nikelwa
“xabana” [non-native]originally recorded by morten
Results
• Delay between click and rest of word• A variety of problems in coordinating the production
of ‘clicks’ and breathing• Rather long break due to the ‘switch’ from the click to
the vowel in ones head • Non-native speaker’s brains are not trained to
produce the click in a word context, therefore it is easier to produce clicks in the initial position
• It is only possible to learn how to produce the ‘pure’ clicks if one not only learns the language as a child, but also speaks it