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Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Friday, February 28, 2003, 16:49
Nik:
> Andrew Smith wrote: > > To take the first two, the phonetics is spot on, so "I'm going to the pub" > > is [amgOIn?pUb] > > Is that a typo, or is it really an *un*aspirated voiceless stop there?
I don't know what Andrew's intentions were, but I think that the preceding glottal stop tends to suppress aspiration on the following plosive. I also suspect that the glottal stop can be omitted so long as the aspiration is suppressed. I'd need to check this with informants, but I am tentatively suggesting something like this: [Ol?t_haEm] = 'all the time' [Ol?taEm] = 'all the time' [OltaEm] = 'all the time' [Olt_haEm] = 'all time' Part of the reason I am tentative about this is that some northerners don't aspirate /p t k/ in the first place, so there are definitely some for whom the above paradigm is incorrect. --And.