A community for conlangs and conlangers
Question: Phonetics Again, this time articulation
So this particular language has qualitative stress, in that the sound moves from a nice velar /k/ when stressed to this hollow sound that backs the attached vowel and moves back itself. I found glottalic consonants this morning and it finally seems to describe the motion I'm doing with my articulators to stress a /k/, but I can't figure out how to know if I'm making a glottalic /k/ or if it becomes the uvular stop instead or if it's hollow voiced.
bako goes from unstressed
ba ko
to its stressed pronunciation
bɑq o
I think anyway on the q. And with devoicing on the b, though I suppose that partial devoicing on the final pronunciation. There's no vowel reduction and vowel lengthening (duration, not quality) is phonemic.
So my question is I can make the sound, I can listen to the sound, but I can't figure out if I'm making a glottalic /k/, a glottalic /q/, or just a plain /q/ (though it does have that hollow sound and the vowel is devoiced as well). Is there any way just observing myself that makes it easy to know which I'm doing?



