Re: Cloakroom
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 15, 2008, 12:47 |
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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> Now that's pretty important a distinction in meaning to place on
> vowel length and a glottal stop!
The vowel-length distinction is all over the place in AusE (and
non-rhotic Englishes generally), so I don't know why it's less
suitable for importance than any other one...
I also have only the glottal stop (well, and presence or absence of
[n] after a nasalized vowel), in emphasized versions: I ['k_h&n] go vs
I ['k_h&~?] go; but if the emphasis is not on "can", the positive form
becomes [k_hn=] instead.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>