Re: USAGE: Glottal stop for /t/ (was Re: 2nd person pronoun for god)

I'm not sure--it sounds the same, and the
articulations feel the same, even with the little /_h/
coming after the /?/.  Oh, how I need to get into
formal linguistics study!

Clint

--- "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> wrote:
> Quoting Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>:
>
> > My final t's are always glottal stops--not only
> that,
> > but sometimes they even get glottalized in the
> middle
> > of words.
>
> A glottal stop, or an unreleased alveolar stop? Many
> Americans
> (including me) have the latter but not the former in
> words like
> "bat", "cat", etc. The tongue makes contact with the
> alveolar
> ridge -- it just does not release it.
>
>
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