ABSTRACT
Gutturals form a natural class in Ju∣'hoansi. In this chapter, I will show that guttural consonants and vowels are phonetically similar. Pharyngeals and laryngeals are unified phonetically in three different ways. First, they all display noise within the third formant frequency range. Second, they all lower or raise the fundamental frequency. Third, gutturals have an effect on the first formant frequency. In this chapter, I describe broadly the spectral characteristics of Ju∣'hoansi guttural consonants and vowels. I provide spectrograms, spectra and fundamental frequency (F0) tracks to illustrate the phonetic properties that define the class of gutturals and the opposing class of non-gutturals. Dynamic properties of the different types of click accompaniments (closure vs. release properties) are shown to be relevant to the definition of gutturals, since only click accompaniments that are realized during the release are gutturals.
