Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 2, 2001, 6:15 |
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<<What about <adiin> though? Is that even possible phonotacticly, without a
glottal stop to start it off?>>
If I were to hear [adiin], I would take as a variant of "al-diin", which is
realized as [@d:iin], "the religion", where sometimes a schwa-like vowel, or a
vowel not unlike a short [a] will show up in front of the initial geminate. And
I can't imagine it without an initial glottal stop--they tend to be pretty
emphatic.
-David