Re: Representing Boreanesian (was: Re: quantity triggered vs.
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 11, 1998, 0:34 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> To me it seems that all words in English that supposedly start with
> vowels really start with [?], and I'm a native speaker. I can't even
> pronounce a vowel at the beginning of a word with a stop.
Which dialect do you speak? I sometimes have a glottal stop with words
beginning with vowels after words ending in vowels, as in "the apple"
(/D@ ?&pl=/ but sometimes /D@ &pl=/), but never if it follows a word
ending in a consonants, as in "an apple" (/@n &pl=/).
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