Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

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.