That was the question that was aimed at me over tea this afternoon. So we talked about how we make the consonant sounds (dredging up memories from my module of linguistics and phonetics of bilabial plosives and dental fricatives) and how they're what we call the sounds when we block the air/sound coming out of our mouths in some way, with our tongues, teeth or lips or a combination, and how it would be very tricky to string those together without some open mouth sounds in between. So we made lots of different consonant sounds and felt what our tongues and lips did and then vowel sounds and found that we don't block them in the way we do for consonants. I then mentioned that some languages are so different from ours that we don't even have the same sounds, for example some have different clicking sorts of noises and we could look for something on the computer if K & M were interested. They were, so a little while later I found a video (I'm sure there are better ones around, but K & M were moving on to playing something different by then, so it was a question of seizing the moment and this was the first one that came up).
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