Re: Representing Boreanesian (was: Re: quantity triggered vs.

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> 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=/).
I speak Midwestern (Wisconsin) US English. I guess I should amend my
statement; I meant they start with [?] when they stand alone or at the
beginning of saying something (is that called a 'breath group?') For
me, "the apple" is /Di &pl=/ or sometimes /Di ?&pl=/; "an apple" is
/&n &pl=/ or /&n ?&pl=/. Whether there is a glottal stop seems to
depend on how long the pause is between the words. Also, the vowel in
"an" is sometimes [&] but I think it might be considered a schwa other
times... it sounds to me like [E] or [I].