Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)

 --- Jonathan Knibb wrote:
> Even in my speech, which I like to think of as fairly close to RP,
> 'catch it' = [k{t_SIt], but - and I'd never noticed this before! -
> 'cat shit' = [k{?t_SIt] (yes, with affricate).
>
> As well as the glottal stop preceding (or glottalisation of?) the
> affricate, there's a distinctive rhythmic difference, which is (to me
> at least) auditorily more important.  There's definitely a geminate-
> stop feel to the latter example, I think probably caused by a period
> of complete glottal +/- alveolar closure, giving a period of silence
> between the words that isn't there in 'catch it'.  Do other people
> feel/hear the difference as rhythmic, or am I unusual? :)
>
> Jonathan.
In my speech the most obvious difference is the first vowel... I'd say
'catch it' = [kEtSIt]
'cat shit' = [k{tSIt]

I'm not sure of the affricate/cluster status of the t-S combinations,
but I think I hear a bigger break in the second one

Estel

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