On Friday 04 April 2003 06:52 am, Tristan wrote:
> BP Jonsson wrote:
>
> > At 01:28 1.4.2003 -0500, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> >
> BTW: a vaguely related question. How do languages which don't mind
> hiatus deal with sequences of the same vowel? How would a
> non-intrusive-R speaker pronounced something like 'data about' (I say
> /d6:t@r@b&ut/ for anyone who might wonder why I ask. And I'm not at
all
> concerned with the first vowel of 'data').
>
I use a weak (unvoiced? non-plosive?) glottal stop. It's almost a matter
of rhythm rather than sound, not nearly as strong as the sound in the
non-RP Brit pronunciation of bottle.
> Tristan (born non-rhotic, and will die non-rhotic)
>
>
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